Mangroves on the move.
It's been a tiring day for the mangroves. They were on the move by dozens. Just like the jelly fish just like dandelions they are on the move for survival. It's a cruel game unless you change your tactics. Instead putting seeds, thousands of them into the water and make them strand everywhere, mangrove parents have decided it's better if they nature their kids at home. Until they are big enough to live on their own. Until they are capable of making their own roots grow as a source of income to nourish themselves. Then came the flood, which ripped them apart. While mangrove parents were watching their children were dragged by the flood. For days they have been drifting here and there in the lagoon. Desperately trying to find a land to land their young roots. I saw them drifting towards the sea with the low tide. Maybe they have a better chance there.
Why moving house is so difficult?
Migration is a stressful endeavor. Not only for the plants and animals, more often for us. Imagine you are moving from your apartment to a new and better place. Yet still until you settle down it can be really difficult, from choosing what to pack what to discard. How to move with whom. To explore the new environment, new Neighbours, to decide whether to order food or to start cooking from day one. As everything is novel there is a lot to take in. As we are habitual animals, we prefer everything habitual. However, migration doesn't allow us to settle just like when you were a student driver.
Change is difficult from sports to lightening.
Imagine a child learning to ride a bicycle. For that matter even to swim. Initially it's a struggle. A constant fear of a fall. It's so hard to teach someone how to balance a cycle. If you do not know, the cycle balance itself. It's just when you try to steer that it loses the balance and tip over. But fear doesn't allow the child to let it steer by itself. He tries to balance again and again after so many falls that he learns it is not at all about gripping hard. It's about letting go. Trusting the universe. You may wonder what is the point of a cycle lessons i words? Only if you are a cyclist, you would agree this is true.
I am sure similar thing happens any other sports like surfing or curling. After the initial struggle it tends to start to a flow. This is true for even nature. Imagine a dessert which is full of sand dunes. And suddenly there is a rain. And as the rainwater collects, initially nothing would happen. The water would soke the sand, and then it will saturate the sand and start to collect on the surface in little pools. And after a while it will start to flow. And these small water flows will connect each other and will make a stream. If given enough rain this stream will start to change the terrain and leave its mark even on the dry dessert. The fact is flow is a natural state of nature.
Migration is like the rain in the dessert. Initially you would not know where to go and how to go there. You would flatten out and disperse your energy everywhere to see your options. And then when the pressure builds up you will start to follow the options and naturally after a while it will start to shape your future in a predictable manner. Like a child who has trust in his cycle you would be able to join the natural flow.
If you would not believe me, ask from the lightening. Have you seen lightening in ultra slow motion? Shutter speeds of our cameras are so fast that nowadays our equipment provides us opportunity to become quicksilver just like that. I will describe it for you if you haven't seen that. First the supercharged particles peep down from the clouds. As they go down, they initially do not know where to hit, so they make little branches like tentacles of a jelly fish, blistering intricate patterns from heaven. Then one finds a path with least resistance and in a flash, everything discharges through this path in supersonic speed. And that is amazing to watch.
How to make migration easy?
I can give you a list of ten difficulties to make you understand why moving houses is so difficult. In fact, google suggests me to do just that. Followed by ten steps to overcome those difficulties. However, I would not do that mistake. I would just open your eyes into a natural world with chaos and show you how to find your Loranzo attractors so you can start flowing back again. Just like a stream, just like lightening or like a mangrove on a beach. And once you know its natural and inevitable that it happens, it would be just a waiting game. With a little bit of positive psychology, you may speed up the process even.
PS:
1. I watched the movie migration the other day, an animation movie about a family of birds who happened to be Migrating! Amazing, and I would say you will find more insights about difficulties of moving a house in this movie than any other sources of information. Specially if you are about to move your house.
2. Literally you can move your house. And I have seen instead of moving houses some traditional people just carry their wooden house from place to place. Maybe living in a caravan is not bad after all.
3. You may find it helpful the rule of best choice if you are looking for a new house. -> Picking up corn problem
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