When Is It My Turn?

When the fish are away, seals get angry and furious. What to eat? What to do other than stare out waiting? Waiting. Thinking. Thinking at times, "I'm going to get the first fish I see and gobble it up. Then the next one and the next one! There's no stopping me!" Unless there are no fish, that stops you. Do seals pray for fish? Do they hope? Hope that the currents will bring them by? Do they go out looking for fish and potentially die in the process? There are things bigger, faster and hungrier out there with sharper teeth. What if I'm not good enough? What if there's another seal that's better than me? Fear is paralyzing, I know. Fear of failure. Of criticism. Fear that you’re not up to it. It’ll stop you mid-swim. It will melt your sand castle and your hopes and fragile dreams with it. It's probably safer to wait.

Wait for the opportunity? Wait for Ed McMinnow to come onto the rocks with a giant check for 1 million clams? Even better, wait for a fishing boat to wreck on the rocks and have free fish for weeks! A hurricane of halibut. A tsunami of salmon. A twister of trout! The heavens above parting as rays surround the hand of God while he scoops up handfuls of fish and lays them out on the rocks for all to feast on! Anything could happen! Something divine must happen! But it probably won't.

Don't wait. Don't look at others with envy. Don’t look at the other seals eating fish and say, “What about me?” Don't get angry and stay that way. Get angry and turn it into good. Make it work for you. Make it inspire you to do great "sealy" things! Make it happen. Trust in you. See yourself for who you've become and give value to that. Give yourself the value that you want the other seals to see. What you want the world to see. Trust in the fact that you're made of better stuff and your inner light will shine for the world to see.

There is an oppor-tuna-ty for you out there, my friendly seal. There is kindness in the scary oceans. There is a higher power looking down upon you wanting you to trust. Wanting you to push and make things happen. There is a bounty of fish for you out there, brother or sister seal and it's waiting for you to reach out and grab it! Never stop working toward it. Be smart and see the clarity of where you are and what it possible. If you can't alone, the oceans are filled with those who have and are willing to help.

Think for a moment that you don't deserve and you won't. Think that you can't and you never will. Think that it's possible and it shall become. Think about giving up and you're half way there. Know that you can and it will happen. No fish? Maybe not right now, but soon and plenty. Work toward it. Pray on it. Dream on it. Never stop working on it. When your time is right, my kind seal friend. When your time is right.