Your Hot Vapor River · Adapter vs. Hammer (BZ010)
⁘ Created: 2025-11-25 ⁘ Updated: 2025-12-08
Why must you always hammer your way through? You can also flow like the river. Reflect and adapt sometimes. If you're too rigid, you simply damage yourself and others when you push and force your path onward. Please take those reflective breaks.
It's a multiplayer game here, you see. You have your current. I have my current. We need to be meeting in the middle. Elasticity is survival. Dry and hard trees snap in half when the storm comes. Water is meant for more than boiling it hard.
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Does it ever dawn to you that you could just take a step back, try to adapt and adjust, instead of hammering it on and on and on? When you are too rigid, full of sharp corners and thorns, it only ever leads to conflict and destruction.
Yes, you have your flow and its cohesion, and I have mine, and we need to be meeting in the middle ground. It's not a single player game, you see. Existence as we know it is a multiplayer game. You have your stream, I have my stream, and there are confluences where reflective adjustment is necessary. Flexible cohesion. Now there's a keyword for you.
As the river flows, in an ever-shifting riverbed, takes on inflows, flows into lakes and oceans, so too must we do in our lives. You are 80% made of water. How is it that this water only comes out in jet torrents and hot vapors? When you find yourself in that reactive heat of the moment, allow for yourself to be fluid.
Do you seek reconciliations and progress — or should it all just burn down to ashes, because it's not going exactly your way? Like the flow of water. Not a stream of boiling molten lava. If you're too rigid, you simply snap and break yourself in the process. Why would you do that? There will ever come a storm that'll snap you half if you're too rigid.
Elasticity is survival. It's also beauty, harmony, love, and all the good stuff, but let's start with not destroying ourselves by being too stiff. Now no one's saying that you need to just go with the flow and yield to every damn push and pull. No, sometimes you do need to hold your course. All I'm saying, don't be defaulting to the sledgehammer.
Book in your mind a space where that adaptation is possible — where called for. Space alone allows for reflection and leads to clarity. The elements will ever be working in your favor. And in favor of everyone else actually, when you operate from a place of integration. Study your waves, reflect on the ocean as a whole. Don't just try to put it all into a pot and boil it real hard.