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Hi, it's Dora here.
Welcome to Radioheadspace.
A couple months ago at dinner, my friend was telling me about her first time going to a water park.
You know, the kind with water slides named things like Poseidon's Revenge or Devil's Free Fall.
wall. My friend was an anxious kid, so her family agreed that they could work their way up to those doom slides and start with something calmer.
The Lazy River. The Lazy River is a slow -moving water ride powered by hidden jets that create a steady current to mimic a real river.
My friend said she remembered giving the lifeguard a respectful nod to acknowledge that she was a fellow rule follower.
Then she got into her tube exactly as instructed, holding on to both handles as the current sent her on her way.
To her horror, when she looked back, she saw her family was not following the rules.
Her dad had flopped onto his tube belly first, her mom was floating backward, and her brother had abandoned his tube entirely, disrupting the delicate balance of proper float speed.
bead. She was drifting further and further away.
The lazy river was not the correct name for this attraction.
My friend frantically tried paddling against the current.
But the more she fought, the worse it got.
She spun in circles, got wedged between strangers, and was slowly absorbed into another family's vacation.
Then she heard her mom yell, far more calmly than she would have liked.
you're good just pull into the next exit we'll meet you there she hadn't even noticed the exits but sure enough she paddled over grabbed a handrail and a few minutes later her family floated in like nothing had ever happened and I've been thinking about that story lately partially because it's hilarious and partially because for a few frantic minutes my friend was so sure she was was lost. But the truth was, she was never lost. She was just moving with the current.
And that's something we can all struggle with, right?
We resist uncertainty.
We panic when we don't know what's next.
The mind loves clarity, closure, and certainty.
But in Buddhism, there's a teaching called Sada, faith or trust. It doesn't mean to be naive.
It means trusting the process, even when you don't have all the answers yet.
This moment reminds me of a Buddhist story story about a traveler who came to a wide rushing river, with no bridge and no boat.
The current was strong, the waters deep, and crossing seemed impossible.
He could have stood there, stuck, waiting for something to change, but instead, he gathered branches and reeds and carefully built a small raft. When it was ready, he set it on the water, stepped onto it, and let the current carry him.
It was an instant, it wasn't effortless.
he had to balance adjust trust but the river supported him and eventually without forcing or fighting he reached the other shore we all have rivers to cross challenges uncertainties big changes and we have two choices stand on the shore resisting reality or trust the flow and move with it the traveler in the story didn't fight the river he didn't stand on the shore waiting for the perfect moment to cross.
He didn't panic halfway and try to paddle backward. He trusted the current.
And that's exactly what my friend didn't do in the lazy river.
The moment she realized she was drifting away, she fought the current with everything she had.
Paddling, spinning, exhausting herself until her mom called out a much easier solution.
Just pull into the next exit.
How often do we do this in our own lives?
Something unexpected happens been a change, a delay, a moment of uncertainty.
And instead of trusting that we'll find a way through, we panic.
We expend energy trying to force our way back to a moment that's already passed instead of looking ahead to where we're actually going.
And yet, when we stop resisting, when we step onto the raft, when we pull into the next exit, things get easier.
The way forward isn't always obvious, but it's there.
So today, just notice, where are you fighting the current?
Where are you exhausting yourself trying to force something that might actually need time to unfold?
Maybe it's a decision you feel pressured to make right now, even though the answer isn't clear yet.
Or maybe you're waiting on someone else to make a decision.
Whatever it is, just like in the lazy river, you don't have to panic.
You don't have to fight.
And for today, you can just pull into the next exit.
Take a breath and trust that things will catch up with you.
Thanks so much for tuning in.
I'll see you back here tomorrow.
Thank you.
