Instagram bios and WhatsApp statuses are filled with this quote ‘Go with the flow’. Clearly telling us to surrender to the waves of life, and let life take us where it wants. Basically, passively submerging into the possibilities of life and letting its unpredictability soak you deep. I am glad I could put it into words. Phew!
Hi!
How have you been? Half of 2023 has passed in the blink of an eye. And I mean it. It’s surreal how time has been passing lately.
So, I was putting my version of going with the flow. But, I can only put it into words not in my life. Because for me it is difficult to be random, to go where life takes me. I have never known how not to plan things in advance. Anything that gives a sudden knock on my door, stirs the anxiety out of me. Not to hope, not to have a plan B in advance sounds alien to my instinct. So, knowing someone who takes life as it is, who knows how to embrace its flow and go with it, kind of envies me.
Perhaps that’s why I am a sporadic writer. I don’t do things without preparations and planning. The professional life schedule I have doesn’t spare much time for the same which often puts my writing in the backseat.
But of late things are different. I am learning to let things be. Putting a pause on the innate desire to control and handle things my way. I am learning to make mistakes, to abandon the fear of not getting it all right. It’s okay to fail at things, we don’t have to top every exam, especially in life. And a perfect example of this would be this newsletter. (See found the perfection in the example as well. Habits don’t go that easily) I didn’t jot down any ideas before writing this one. Simply put a will to sit in front of my laptop today, put on some good music and I was good to go. I think it has worked well for I am liking how my thoughts have come as words. Even if I won’t have liked what I have written, I would have still posted it today. Because lately, I am learning to let life touch me through its flow. It panics me a bit but I think I can manage. We all do manage things in the end. That’s our strength.
GOODREADS:
I have finished reading Anxious People by Fredrik Backman. Must say reading a good book works like magic. My go-to escapes from reality.
And then I am hooked to another one by the same author, A Man Called OVE.
Here’s sharing my favourite line from the read so far.
The songs I am tuned to while writing this to you.
It actually feels good to write you something random. It won’t always be this way for however passively we want to sail through this life, we are humans after all. Some mind knows their way out of their comfort zones. They don’t know how to settle. And there is nothing wrong with that either.
Someone told me a while ago not to say goodbye but not what to say instead. So, is there any alternative to ‘goodbye’? Maybe ‘I will see you again’.
Sweating all through Delhi’s weather, occasionally capturing the clouds.
Aakanksha.
The meaning behind going with the flow is not to have no plans or dreams at all. Going with the flow means to have plans and dreams, do whatever you can to reach them, and then let success be success without you having to control it. To let the outcome be as it is and accept it genuinely; that is going with the flow.
I love the thoughts of this newsletter! And I'm glad you read Fredrik Backman, I love his writing style.