Written by Netisha Alie
Written by Netisha Alie
Growing up in the beautiful country side of rugged fresh Dominica, I was fascinated by the way the water in a nearby stream would be dirty from the soap of my mom's laundry in one location, but clean a few yards lower. As the water flows on the soil and rocks, it replenishes and cleans up. Stagnant dirty water however, would remain dirty and eventually develop a stench.
Human life is much like that, rivers flow, oceans make waves, lakes and ponds have life forms contributing to its continual freshness and BABIES do not remain babies. We physically grow daily, whether horizontally or vertically, we're moving. Even the good book tells us "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things." 1 Corinthians 13:11 Psychologists postulate stages of development, Scientist posits the life cycle of living things, oh well, you get the point. ALL LIVING THINGS GROW! Even when you are doing the same job for many years, you are still doing it differently because you are not the same from the time you started.
Stating all the above was necessary to show just how inevitable growth is. Becoming an adult means that there are just some things one is not expected to do anymore. Your dress code changes as you mature, the partying and drinking are traded for a more quiet laid back idea of recreation. Spouses are chosen, multiple partners don't cut it anymore because you just want that one person to settle with. Goals change, life perspectives shift and maturity sets in. Some people get there before others, and that it quite fine, for it is not how long you get there but once you keep moving.
Then there are those people who are like adults trapped in teenagers bodies. Refusing to let go and come to terms with aging. People who remain like that stagnant dirty water and set in their ways. When you hit a certain age you really have no excuse. Now that you have become a man, it is time to 'put away childish things.'
So do a self check sometime, are you stagnant and going nowhere like still water, waiting to become further contaminated, or are you like that river or stream that flows to the ocean, which gets dirty along the way but keeps on flowing till it gets clean again and reaches its destination?
Life is for growing, keep on moving to experience its fulness.
Written by Netisha Alie
Growing up in the beautiful country side of rugged fresh Dominica, I was fascinated by the way the water in a nearby stream would be dirty from the soap of my mom's laundry in one location, but clean a few yards lower. As the water flows on the soil and rocks, it replenishes and cleans up. Stagnant dirty water however, would remain dirty and eventually develop a stench.
Human life is much like that, rivers flow, oceans make waves, lakes and ponds have life forms contributing to its continual freshness and BABIES do not remain babies. We physically grow daily, whether horizontally or vertically, we're moving. Even the good book tells us "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things." 1 Corinthians 13:11 Psychologists postulate stages of development, Scientist posits the life cycle of living things, oh well, you get the point. ALL LIVING THINGS GROW! Even when you are doing the same job for many years, you are still doing it differently because you are not the same from the time you started.
Stating all the above was necessary to show just how inevitable growth is. Becoming an adult means that there are just some things one is not expected to do anymore. Your dress code changes as you mature, the partying and drinking are traded for a more quiet laid back idea of recreation. Spouses are chosen, multiple partners don't cut it anymore because you just want that one person to settle with. Goals change, life perspectives shift and maturity sets in. Some people get there before others, and that it quite fine, for it is not how long you get there but once you keep moving.
Then there are those people who are like adults trapped in teenagers bodies. Refusing to let go and come to terms with aging. People who remain like that stagnant dirty water and set in their ways. When you hit a certain age you really have no excuse. Now that you have become a man, it is time to 'put away childish things.'
So do a self check sometime, are you stagnant and going nowhere like still water, waiting to become further contaminated, or are you like that river or stream that flows to the ocean, which gets dirty along the way but keeps on flowing till it gets clean again and reaches its destination?
Life is for growing, keep on moving to experience its fulness.
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