WHICH WAY WILL YOU ROW?

Rowing against the current.

Sometimes it's a photograph, sometimes a film, sometimes a sentence in a book…

Not everything has to be experienced firsthand.

You can feel intense emotions simply by looking at a photograph or immersing yourself in nature.

If you allow your mind to flow through its winding paths, you’ll be surprised by the excitement that can emerge from even the narrowest of spaces.

Years ago, I discovered that life operates beyond the grasp of logic.

Despite my intelligence, knowledge, experience, and resources, I found myself running in circles, like a mouse on a wheel.

I couldn’t break free, I couldn’t move forward, and I couldn’t reach an end.

No matter what I did, I couldn’t stop, change, or improve what was happening.

This cycle went on for years.

Years later, when I finally left that period behind, I thought I had come out unscathed.

But my reactions to life revealed otherwise.

Because I had chosen to stand firm, everything had been buried deep, hidden under layers of time.

Until one day, a tiny trigger—a seemingly insignificant event—made everything resurface.

Those moments are critical.

If you can learn the language of these moments, your life can change.

Life’s language is like our mother tongue.

From the moment we are born, we learn our native language by being exposed to conversations, sounds, and expressions around us.

It is an interactive process; without interaction, the language remains incomplete.

Life’s language works the same way—it forms through interaction.

You are exposed to it, you understand it, and you respond.

Or you are exposed to it, misunderstand it, and respond accordingly.

When you understand correctly and respond in alignment, you move with the current—smoothly, effortlessly, without wounds or bruises.

When you misunderstand and respond accordingly, you start rowing against the current.

Is that wrong?

No.

It just makes the journey more difficult.

If struggle fulfills you, if overcoming obstacles brings you satisfaction, if rowing against the current makes you happy,

Then there is nothing wrong with it at all.