Trying too hard

“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.”

― Alan W. Watts

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if I know anything about myself

and that is questionable

it is this

I usually try too hard

too hard to be liked

too hard to be helpful

to hard to be valued and respected

trying too hard often looks much

like not trying enough

or at other times

like being disorganized and scattered

this morning

as the blue sky stretched into eternity

and the green grass

of the pasture glowed neon

a mother cow stood the in middle of beauty

and voiced her lament

loud and repetitive

anxious

her frantic bleating shattering

the peace

a kindred soul

there are times when one must stop striving

breathe deep

and go with

the flow