It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Life is a series of waves to be embraced and overcome.
You come up against challenges in life, and it's how you deal with them that defines you.
You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet.
It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!
The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.
The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.