TLC once said, "Don't go chasing waterfalls," but lately I haven't been listening to them.
Over the past couple of days, I've been waterfall hunting- not intentionally, but it's just kind of worked out that way. Remember that blog about adventuring more locally? Well, I found out I've lived within a 10 minute drive of two waterfalls for the past six months, so I decided to pay a visit to the great, local bartenders of nature.
Of all the peaceful, relaxing, majestic and picturesque things about waterfalls, there's something I find quite peculiar: waterfalls seem almost immortal. Maybe it's just me, but whenever I'm watching a waterfall, I can't help but wonder where all the water keeps coming from. They just seem to pour and pour and pour and never stop. They never seem to run out of water, ever. It's like the body of water they come from never runs dry or changes. Gallons and gallons of water all from them each day, yet the body of water above never seems to change. It's astounding to me. They just keep pouring out. It makes me wish I was more like a waterfall, myself.
I'm truly astounded by the way waterfalls can continue pouring out all the day long, seven days a week. They never need a break. They never get tired. They just keep going and going, no batteries included. Sure, it rains and they collect run off, but it still seems like that wouldn't be enough for the amount of water that seems to come out of them. Waterfalls are like the little fountains that used to be in your grandmother's house that had a pump in them, pumping water all the day long, except they aren't fountains, and they aren't at your grandmother's house. They're in nature and they just keep doing what they do all day long.
I wish I was more like this. I wish I could keep pouring out day in and day out. I wish I could give 100 percent at everything I do. I wish I could be completely, emotionally invested in every conversation I partook in. Even more so, I wish I could pour out more to others more than I pour into myself.
I wish I were more like a waterfall. I wish we all were. The more waterfalls, the more pouring out, and the more pouring out, the more filled up we would all be.
-Cliff
Cliff's Note: Chase to be a waterfall.