Be Like Water

I have been itching to write lately, because it's been aeons since words poured out of me. I racked my brain for topics to tackle, and the one word that kept coming to me was water. And water it was.

I decided to remind myself of my favourite water quotes courtesy of good reads because like they say, 71% of me just like the universe is water. There's something about water, the sound of its flow brings a serenity too sublime for words. Watching the waves ebb and flow stills my mind, one of the reasons why I miss Mombasa so much. One of my favourite pastimes was sitting at this stone-carved/concrete bench at Fort-Jesus and releasing myself to the sound of the waters and the waves.

I've complied a couple of sayings that I really love concerning water, apart from water always finds its level. 

Here goes:

1: “Anger is like flowing water; there's nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.”

 C. JoyBell C.

2. “The cure for anything is salt water - tears, sweat, or the sea.” 

 Isak Dinesen, Seven Gothic Tales

3. “Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.” 

Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

4. “No matter how much water a sink takes on, it never lives up to its name. The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink. 
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Jarod Kintz, The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink.

5. The sun shines down, and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with water. The reflections are many, but they are each reflecting the same sun. Similarly, when we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.

I'm not quite sure why the word water has been on my mind lately, maybe I need more of it, maybe I need to re-acquaint myself with it. All I know it, if most of the world is water, if most of a human being is water, if the first nine months of a human's life are spent in water, if in the beginning was thick darkness and water, then there are secrets in this eternal compound that only its drops can whisper. 

PS: Image courtesy of wallsave . com.