Deep standing water and clear water.🌿🤍

Deep standing water and clear water.

Ancients often likened sober people to "deep standing water."

I mean, people who look quiet outside don't show up much.

But the inside is full of deep knowledge, talent and thought.

Khoi himself used to understand that meaning.

But looking at people in today's world,

Meet people in different ways, see ways of thinking.

How to speak and treat human beings

Khoi instead began to question this metaphor in another corner.

Because some people are really still

Really good

Real knowledge

But the inside is full of frustration.

Full of anger. Craving to overcome.

And the frustration that fermented silently.

The outside looks calm.

But the inside is turbulent.

Like a smooth surface, but under water.

Instead, it's a deep stream that can't see the bottom.

The deeper, the darker.

The darker it is, the harder it is to see what is hidden.

So Khoi started thinking that some "deep still water"

May always be beautiful

Because of that depth.

Maybe it's just an endless swirl of ideas.

Is suffering hidden under silence.

Is a fire that is in the heart without anyone seeing

Unlike the image of "clear water flowing."

The water is still flowing, but it's hard.

I stopped until rotten.

Calm surface, clear underwater.

See the fish. See the rocks.

Overlooking the soil and sediment lying at the bottom of the stream.

This kind of water is clear because it has never been turbid.

But clear because it has been turbid

Until the sediment falls to the bottom of the water.

Like the heart of a person who has been through suffering

Disappointment and confusion have come.

Until learning to put. Learning to accept.

And learn to live with the truth.

Without fighting it all the time.

When you arrive today, if someone asks you what kind of water you want,

Khoi would choose "clear, flowing water."

rather than "deep standing water."

Because depth may make people considerate

But transparency makes people trust

The depth may hide a lot.

But the clarity makes it realistic.

And some..

The value of water may be at its depth.

But in the cold prevalence it gives to the surrounding life.

✍🏻 Indiscriminate writer. 📖