Flush It Friday: A Bow Always Strung
Salutations, stinkers!
Back in my Boy Scout days, I had a friend named Collin. Collin was about 5 or 6 years older than I was and was one of those folks who just seemed to be a fountain of wisdom. He was always the one I would ask to help me set up my tent, help me get a fire started, and if I ever forgot something, I knew he would have a spare. I really looked up to Collin. But there’s one memory of him that has always stood out in my mind as helping to shape the way that I view work.
We were riding with my dad back home from a week-long camping trip. I asked Collin what he was going to do when he got home and he said “Unstring my bow.” I asked him what he meant by that and he responded by telling me about a book he had been reading on Native American philosophy. In this book, one of the things it warned against was a bow always strung. He explained to me that, while a bow may be more useful when strung, if it is left that way for too long, it will lose its spring faster, thereby rendering it ineffective. Humans are, he told me, just like bows: sure we may be more productive if we’re always working, but to exert ourselves for too long will leave us exhausted and burnt out. This was something my 12-year-old brain had never considered before. Most of what school and media had modeled to me was that the best life was one of constant achievement, progress, and effort, and while those are certainly all worthwhile things, it is unhealthy to hold ourselves to an expectation of constant labor without leisure. There is a time to run and there is a time to walk.
So hopefully with the weekend coming up, you and I will all have a little time to unstring our bows, decompress, and do something that we enjoy. I will if you will. But before you get to that, we’ve got some flushing to do!
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And that’s all we wrote! Thanks for sticking around another week and if you missed any of our odorous offerings, be sure to take a sniff! And while you’re at it, drop those GBUs!
