06.10.10

Let the River Run

Posted in Comedy Around The World, Humor~Inspirational, www.yourshiningexample.com at 5:36 pm by Dr. Trina Hess

This week’s Comedy Around the World goes kayaking along the Allegheny River. My friend Mike taught me how to kayak. We started out on a small lake. Then I graduated to Moraine State Park, and their gigantic lake there. I was afraid at first, because the lake area had been a former glacier. So it was a BIG Lake. And, the middle of the lake would be very deep.

But after kayaking on the lake for several hours, I wasn’t worried anymore about drowning. In fact, although my shoulders were hurting, I was actually enjoying paddling the waves. It wasn’t scary anymore. Because it had become fun.

Then, Mike invited me to kayak on the Allegheny River. I said no. It was moving water. It would be too scary. I would never survive.

A few years went by and I had (and took) the opportunity to kayak on a small creek. The water there was very fast. There was little time to relax. It wasn’t at all like the lake. But it was fun because it was something completely different than anything I’d ever tried.

A funny thing happened yesterday. I drove by the Allegheny River and looked at it through my car window. It didn’t seem so threatening anymore. I learned that river water is much slower than stream water. What I had (already) done on the creek had been much more death-defying than kayaking on the river would have been.

And I had no idea while I was on the creek.
I was just there for fun.

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