YOUR SOURCE (RIVER SERIES)

CRY ME A RIVER

Last month, we had extreme makeover (heart edition...) and I enjoyed myself such that I always come back to read the blogs.
We have learnt (I hope) about what makes relationships work…..the diversity in love and the need for expressions.

This month, we are heading in a different direction but not anywhere far from thoughtful???. I’m gonna blog about the usefulness of a river …. “wait for it”….. When it has forgotten its source…

It may seem farfetched but in our lives… we have roots…. we have those core things that define us….. and also serve as our dependency in times of trouble….

It may be a mentor….. a higher power….. God for some people…. Your family….. you can name a host of other things….

As good as these things or people may have been to us or as useful as they may have been or will be…. Sometimes we get to a stage where we think…. Now I need nobody….. now I can stand on my own….. Now I can go it all alone…. The road from here is just straight forward and we break ties with whoever or whatever has been … in my words…. “Our source”…..

Most times it is our pride that clouds our thoughts…. At the end we make decisions that are not right…..and it doesn’t get better because we get too cocky to go back and admit our mistakes…. The pride grows and grows and grows until we finally fall….

It’s never too late to go back to your source….and that is a lesson we must all learn…

Take a ride with me as we analyse the situation of the river in the old saying “A river that has forgotten its source will go dry”

My favourite definition of a river is this

“A large natural stream of water emptying into an ocean, lake, or other body of water, and usually fed along its course by converging tributaries.”

A river is fed…. So that it can feed….. One of the main characteristics of a river is the actual flowing that represents feeding and being fed….. A river has to flow so as to be called a river…. And even after it has supposedly forgotten its source…. It must still be flowing to be called a river…..

That is typical of you and me, the fact that we forget those things that really matter to us does not kill us…. We still sleep and wake up and live life like every normal person…Everybody thinks we are doing fine... but it is just for a short period of time…. before it shows that we are dead men walking....

Back to our river,

What is a typical day for a river like….

1.) It takes contributions from tributaries at different places… and heads (what I call its life journey) towards the main ocean where it empties itself. In essence… making its own contribution to the general water world

2.) Along the way, a few things happen….
a. It carries fishes and other aquatics animals with it

b. Men use it for different purposes…. Such as irrigation and other water needs

c. By the process of evaporation, water molecules leave the surface of the river … It happens all the time…. But it happens faster at higher temperatures (i.e. when the sun is out)… in short…. In very little bits, some water is leaving the surface of the river…. But on a normal day… this is very negligible.

3.) The river empties itself into the ocean…. And makes its own contribution to needs of the bigger world

How is this process affected when the river forgets its source….. and how is this related to you and me.

Find out next week……TO BE CONTINUED