Like a salmon

The salmon has a very small brain, everything it does in life is given by instinct, light and stars.

Thinking about the life this fish has, about its descent towards the sea in the first phase and then the ascent of the river to return to the native waters, in the adult phase, I find several similarities with the path of many human beings, the most striking example it is the effort that those who decide to go against the tide make.

Yet… our brain is not so small, at least in proportion not as small as the salmon one and our actions are also moved by reason as well as by instinct.

Well… of course there are also exceptions, the famous… salmon‘s heads, right?

But seriously, why go to so much effort to follow your heart/instinct?

Is it possible that the most useful way for our evolution is always against the tide?

Right now I would like to be a salmon, to be able to give you the right answers, instead I’ll just tell you what I understand about the matter.

We are restless human beings, careful to try to be in control: emotions, situations… because if something gets out of hand… we begin to jump like fish in search of the escape route.

We struggle, we get angry very often and until we overcome the waterfall, injuring ourselves… sometimes risking our lives… here until that moment, we don’t realize how much easier it would be sometimes, to let ourselves go or let it be.

It is right and brave to search our own path but every now and then, to regain strength and not lose sight of the moment we are living… we should abandon ourselves to the flow.

The threshold of fatigue would drop and peace could lead us to an unexpected place… who knows… maybe the right one.

In the end… we follow the light and the stars too… at least, before being cooked to perfection.