A mind like the sea
Imagine life is like a ship sailing over the ocean. Every experience you have makes a mark on the sea. As you travel through the world you leave a wake behind you, a white foam, a swell and a pattern of waves. These are your short term memories. If you look back behind you, you’ll see traces of what you’ve just done, of where you’ve just been, but the wake doesn’t last long. It soon dissipates and settles and becomes indistinguishable from the surface of the ocean again. But some experiences are heavier. They make a bigger impact and they leave objects floating on the water. The flotsam and jetsam of daily experience, lasting longer than a wake, but still floating away, scattered, unanchored. Memories like little fragments of material, boxes, or bottles, washed white in the sea and the sun. Possibly to be recovered some day when they come floating by again, or because you find them lying, unexpectedly, on a desert island somewhere, or someone else picks them up and brings them back to show you. Some sink deeper below the surface and turn into fish or sea creatures with a life of their own, coming up near the surface from time to time, flashing silver or rainbow colours in the water as they swim by. Some become sharks and scare you every time their fins break the surface of the conscious sea. Some become dolphins or whales and leap up joyfully and thrillingly. You can go looking for some of them if you know where they live. Some sink even deeper and become coral and wrecks on the deep sea bed, rusting, encrusting, growing and changing ever so slowly, imperceptibly. You only find them if you dive for them.
Heroes Not Zombies 
I like meandering monologues like these, they seem to reflect my thoughts as they flit about at random.
Sometimes when I am stuck for inspiration I go blog-browsing, and that is how I came upon your blog. Am sure glad I did!
Happy blogging,
DG
Not to mention the ripples and waves that we make as we travel the sea of life. I strive, to “make ripples wisely” knowing that sometimes they can have unlooked for negative effects when the grow stronger as they spread. Some ripples fade out, and others have far reaching, long lasting durations.
Thank you DG, happy blogging to you too. That’s one of the BEST things about blogs isn’t it? We inspire each other
KatK, you’re absolutely right about how we make ripples with our lives and how those ripples touch or disturb others, and isn’t it true that we can’t control the ripples and we can’t control their effects? It’s one of the reasons why doctors should be very careful and thoughtful about what they say to their patients.
Sure we do:)
Nowadays I am feeling particularly in need for inspiration, as I am sure you can tell from my blog!