So long as there’s a bit of a laugh going, things are alright. As soon as this infernal seriousness, like a greasy sea, heaves up, everything is lost.
-D. H. Lawrence
Tag: sea
“Ideas won’t keep…” #33
Don’t climb a tree to look for fish.
-Chinese proverb
Don’t fish for strawberries at the bottom of the sea.
Anonymous
Whether we want love, a kind word, an honest answer, help, or even a special tool, we should look for it in likely places. If we look in unlikely places, we waste a lot of time and just end up, hurt and disappointed, without finding what we want.
Have you ever “climbed a tree to look for fish”? What did you learn? Where will you look next time?