It has been a while since we discussed fishing postcards. These were wildly popular in the middle of the last century, when people stopped sending postcards the way our modern generation sends texts, and instead made postcards a vacation staple: something you sent to the folks at home while you were on a fishing trip. I have no shortage of fishing postcards in my inventory, and thought we could discuss them whilst I subtly, so subtly advertised my wares.
But I had someone comment on this blog, saying that if I really wanted to acquire more than half a dozen readers for each column, I needed to sign onto the Affirmation Style. I have seen plenty of videos among the ticks and tocks of modern technology which were made just to tell me my troubles are fleeting and my hopes and dreams achievable.
So why not? Let’s cast you, dear reader, as the fisherperson and your troubles as the fisher’s quarry. The person fishing has the advantage of technology and brains, while the fish is merely a force of nature. So look over the postcards above and realize that you CAN defeat those worries and that stress. It’s just a matter if application.
If you apply your talents and brains to work instead of worry, you will find your stress flopping on the dock. Your troubles are no match for the human brain, just as these fish cannot hope to achieve the upper hand. Heck, fish don’t even HAVE hands.
You are brave, you are talented, you are the kind of person who can fry red snapper in Mountain Dew. (Remind me to pass along that recipe if ever I decide to write a food blog.) You are no more to be defeated by rando tribulation than the skillful fisherman is to be defeated by a mere creature who dines on worms. (I was going to close this paragraph with an image of a fish smacking its lips, but you should SEE the websites that came up when I tried to Google “fish lips”. But never mind: we will persevere in spite of setbacks. It’s what we’re talking about, after all.)
All we need to remember, dear reader, is that if we take arms against a sea of troubles (Meant to put in a reference to fish in the sea here, but it doesn’t seem to work. We shall sail on.) and we will find al those things that make us apprehensive dwindling away, shrinking before the power of our non-negative thinking. Stand up to those sardines of sorrow and cry “Can it!” (THAT will never show up on a T-shirt, but no matter. It’s the thought that counts in these meditations.)
Though the idea might seem laughable right now (I hope), the day will come when you sit down to a delicious dish of your former worries sauteed and served up, and call out “More fries! These shadows from the past are too small to nourish a hard-working angler!” The way your troubles will melt into nothingness before your combined courage and spirit will leave you hungry for MORE challenges. You will reach for your rod and reel instead of the aspirin and antacids the next time worries splash around you.
I hope this helps. Now that we have realized that our problems can never overcome us if we just show the wit and wiliness of an average sportsman, we can move on to my next problem. What life lessons can I teach you from all these old postcards with chamber pot jokes?
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