Yesterday I told you about the accident that I experienced and today I was faced with yet another test. After the accident I was fortunate to have my parents send me off in their Camry, which was super cool of them. I got to the beach to surf before my first meeting with a client, I suit up and paddle out. Shortly after I get out of the water, I notice a my towel is missing, only to see it on the head of some homeless guy. My towel had my car keys in it.
So, I confronted the homeless guy about the towel and he gave me my towel back. When I asked him about my keys he said he had no idea. So here I was the day after a car accident, having lost my keys thanks to some homeless guy who decided to walk off with my towel. In the sand, trying to find these keys is a nightmare and ultimately a lost cause. However, I decided to waste the next 3 hours looking for the keys, even though my dad said he was going to come to bring me another key.
As I was doing this, another surfer walked up, who I had met once before. He helped me for a few minutes and then offered to let me use the phone at his place, so I could call somebody. He told me to check with him after he surfed, and even suggested I should just paddle back out and keep surfing, since I wouldn’t find the keys anyways. I of course chose to keep looking for the keys.
Why the Universe might be telling me to surf
My friend who’s couch I“m crashing on said, ”I love it. It’s like the universe just keeps telling you to go surf.“ If had I would have gotten another 3 good hours of surfing, which would have made a thousand times happier than endlessly searching for these keys when I knew my dad was going to be coming later with another set.
So, what the hell is the point this ridiculous story? I guess it’s that sometimes you just have to let it all go, and forget about all the drama, and all the bullshit in your life. After realizing I looked for the keys 4 times, it might be to teach me that insanity really is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result. That’s the only real conclusion I can draw from this incident. I guess the keys could be a metaphor for something. I’d love to hear what anybody thinks about this.
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Wow, that’s amazing. Something else that I’ve bumped into is that it is mercury retrograde now. I don’t know what exactly that means but it has something to do with mercury (the planet) and it causes small bad stuff to happen. Weird and interesting.
I think it’s funny how sometimes when one bad thing happens it releases an avalanche of things.
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I probably would have done the same thing. It’s immensely difficult to let go of immediate crises no matter how small or unimportant they might be in the grand scheme of things. Sometimes I’ve managed to catch myself in the moment of fretting and adopt the long term perspective and “go surf” but most of the times I don’t. Letting little problems that pop up in your face bother you is a tough habit to break.
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@Henri: It’s weird that it was an avalanche of pain in the ass things to deal with. But, what’s interesting is what this girl who was a potential roommate said to me is that a bunch of really good stuff is about to happen to you
@Kenji: I think maybe the lesson was not to worry about that kind of stuff an getting caught up all in this nonsense.
This post made me laugh – not because I enjoy your misfortune, but because I have done that so many times myself. The amount of times that I have spent aaaaaaaaagggggggggeeeeeees looking for something that i absolutely cannot find, haven’t found it and then gone back looking for it again. It drives me nuts!
And it’s like you said: doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
Personally, I think it’s just a way of reminding me not to be such a control freak trying to do the impossible and to stop assuming that I can actually control the situation anyway. And learning to let go. I need to let go of things sometimes.
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Your post came in such a timely fashion Srini! I was just starting to write a post about the Zen of non-resistance to life and the power which comes with letting go of control and dancing with the flow.
Yet I know it’s hard to read the signs sometimes especially when you are in a bad patch. Incidentally, it happened to me today. So I make it a point to learn to be more aware for those signs.
Thank you for motivating me further!!
At the end, it’s up to you how you react form a situation, but in this particular case when you realized the keys were not there I would have done something funny, which in turn would have increased positiveness and positive vibrations, and who knows, maybe you would have found you keys
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@Sarah:I can’t say I blame you for laughing. If I pictured this incident in my head happening to someone else I think I’ve have a good laugh too
. So maybe that’s another lesson to be taken from this.
@Gilbert: It’s really amazing that if I had let go of my desire to have such control over this situation how much more at peace I would have been. Definitely a concept worth exploring in a few articles.
@Oscar: Yeah I might have found the keys. The most positive thing I could have done in that moment is go back out and surf. The waves were just getting better and better during this time.
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I think the story there are some definite layers to that onion. I’ll have to remember to “just surf” when things are just simply out of your control. Most of the time we have the ability to change how we feel and act, but no always our circumstances. Like being snowed in at an airport or losing your keys. For those occasions I guess we’ll have to learn how to surf.
Are you still taking comments? This post is so real — we speak eloquently about accepting what is, letting go of control, and then our keys get lost in the sand……..
I bet the lesson from the Universe here is: go easy on yourself when you lose some surfing time because you “had” to find your keys.
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