Swimmers and Floaters
You may have heard the saying “there are 2 people in the
world” before and it’s a lot of different variations that follow. Sometimes it’s
followed by “People who wish and people who do” or “Ones who make things happen
and those who watch things happen” etc. So one day I was sitting home watching
a TV show and in the show it was somebody drowning in this river. So as this
person kicked away panicking in the river about drowning because they couldn't
swim, I started having these random thoughts. So in typical white people movie
plots, some person comes out of nowhere and jumps in and saves the person. White
people are so damn heroic in movies! They will save a kitten in a volcano! Any
way back to the topic. So after the
person saves the person, he asked are you ok? Why were you in the river if you can’t
swim? So the lady looks at him and says “I don’t know... I guess I just wanted
to get away”. So the rest of this conversation became irrelevant to me as this
movie actually was fucking garbage. So trash, I didn't even finish it and don’t
even remember the name of it but it was on Netflix. That scene made my mind go
into work mode and that’s when I created my own concept on the 2 different
people in the world. Its swimmers and floaters! I’m going to break down the
differences between the 2 and it may be certain times in life when people can
swim and float but for the most part, I would say the majority of the people in
the world will fit into one or the other.
I have a different type of mind this I know. I think about
different things and I try to look deeper into things. Sometimes I shouldn't even
care, but I like to think about what a person may be trying to communicate vs
what they are actually saying. My little brother died drowning by attempting to
save another kid. My little brother died being a real hero not a white person
movie hero where they fight big ass transformers or anything. So me knowing he
gave his life helping another kid, I think “if dead bodies can just float to
shore, if that kid wouldn't have panicked and just relaxed he would've saved
his and my brother life.” That may not be cool to say, but it’s true. People
panic in situations and sometimes make it worse when they could just be still
and at least survive. So if you were stranded out in the middle of a lake and
was too just be still and not make any moves, you could survive! You would just
float to wherever the waves take you. You may float out there in that lake for
weeks but eventually you will float to a shore somewhere. Where? Who knows
because you are just floating along to where this wave takes you. You are not
putting in any effort to control where you’re going because you’re just trying
to survive. In your mind, all you are thinking about is making it out of this
river and surviving. You don’t care how you make it out or where you end up at
as long as you can survive. See a floater could be floating and see the land
and maybe have the thought of “Maybe I could just swim to that land” but they
won’t because they are very comfortable with floating. I mean they've floated
this far by just going with the waves so why change now? Floaters will always
survive, they will just always have little control on how they survive.
Everything about a floaters mind set is comfort and surviving. It’s no chances or
risk being taken. They float in all aspects of life. Goals, careers, dreams,
relationships, knowledge, etc. A floater is the person that may get offered a
new job and stay put at the old one because it’s something they know. A floater
may keep friends around who they know are bad people because they are
comfortable with them. A bad relationship because they are not sure what a good
one could feel like and because they are comfortable with their expectations in
the bad one. In the big scheme of things, it’s nothing wrong with being a
floater because at the end of the day you will survive… unless you run into a
big ass shark who eats you alive! Now you done floated your ass into jaws and
jaws will fuck you up! Ok… I’m kidding but a floater will always find a way to
live. But a swimmer? Will fight to live!
The other type of person in the world are swimmers! See
swimmers live by a whole different mentality. A swimmer don’t believe in just
floating to wherever the waves will take them, the swimmer rather control their
own destiny and GO to the land! See a swimmer will rationalize in their mind if
I swim this way it may be a hard journey and it may not be easy to get there,
but I am swimming over there to get out of this water. See a swimmers mentality
isn’t to survive, but to live. They are not concerned with the easy routes of survival,
yet they are all about adapting to change in order to live. They might back
stroke, they may swim under water, and they may frog swim, but no matter what
they need to do to get to that land that they want? They will attempt to make
it happen! A swimmer fully understands they might not make it to that land and
they may fail in the process but the swimmers also believes if they don’t fail
it’s much more rewarding to know they went and got what they wanted. Swimmers
have aggressive mentalities about things they want. Swimmers are willing to
lose to win. They accept and run to change that they deem is worth the risk. It’s
a risk to swim to land but it’s a worthy risk in order to live. Swimmers take
the risk of maybe being wrong because they deem it worth it. When a swimmer
fail? They fail big! They fall on their face hard, but when they win? They win
big! Swimmers are always looking for a way out of the water to get back on land
and once they are on land? They probably will figure a way to own the water
they just got out of. Swimmers don’t wait they swim! If physically swimming is
one of the most excruciating exercises you could do, why wouldn't mentally swimming
be the same way?
Look at it this way, Floaters may buy a McDonald's restaurant
….. Swimmers would create Google. McDonald's is easy and will make you profits
if you own your own McDonald's…but if you create the next Google, Apple,
Facebook, you would laugh at a person who owns a McDonald's. Not that the
floater isn't successful, it’s that the swimmer is willing to do what a floater
isn't. Willing to swim for their happiness not float to it. Willing to take a
chance and create what they want rather than find the easy way. Floaters think
about change, but swimmers create change. Both floaters and swimmers may want
to grow but its different levels and different ways to go about it. You could
take the risk or do it the easy way. It’s a natural action to grow. You grow
from the time you’re born physically. As you live life you should grow
mentally. Things I used to enjoy, don’t give me the same enjoyment anymore
because I've out grown them things. Thing about growing is you have to admit to
yourself that you can longer fit the shit that you’re in. You can squeeze
yourself in an uncomfortable situation all you want or you could quit short
changing yourself and go get something you fit better with and be comfortable.
I had a conversation once where I asked a girl would she swim for me. Her
answer was she don’t know if she could swim. I respected that! I asked another
girl would she swim and her answer was we can swim to wherever you want! Just
the differences in people. Floaters may
attempt to squeeze, swimmers make the investment. Floaters think about the risk…
Swimmers think about the rewards. A swimmer isn't scared of the possible
failures… and even though at times a swimmer may use the technique to float to
save energy, they will not live their life based off floating the same as a
floater will not live their life off taking risks. So the question is…..are you
a floater or a swimmer?
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