Had a lovely talk with my dad tonight, catching up on life. Somewhere along the conversation, we started talking to each other in metaphors and similes, which of course I love.
He tells me that I sometimes like to treat life like building sandcastles.
"You get down and you start shaping these castles, coming up with how things aught to be, you mold them into what you want them to look like. Then the tide comes and washes them away. So next time maybe you start building a little further away from the shore, but the tide comes in and stops you in the middle of your construction".
You can't mold life, he tells me.
"Life is fluid. It's always moving, everything changes. "
Which can be quite annoying to me sometimes, 'cause I never can get anything fully figured out the way I like! But really, that makes for a much more interesting story.
Wisdom from Ron.
Also!
"You know anything about how planes fly?"
I answered something simple about wind rushing under and scooping it into the air.
"Aerodynamics! When I was on the Navy aircraft ships we would always point the jets into the wind. If you try and fly them the other way they would never make it into the air, they would just crash. You have to run them directly into the current so the resistance from the air will pick them up! That's how they'd fly. Well, that's how life is. I realized this the other day. You have to turn and face your problems, move into the wind, to start your rise and to get over them."
He's a smart man. And I love that he talks in metaphors (: They make explanations much more entertaining.
Wish I could remember them all. I should probably start writing down all the wise sayings and colorful quotes my dad says to me. They could fill a book!
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