My back was to the wall.
My life and career had crashed and burned.
I was faced with the choice: fight it or flight?
I chose a third option, one that has been overlooked in the psychology that coined the phrase ‘Fight or Flight’.
This was the option I took pretty much instinctively.
‘Go with the flow’.
I know, it’s not original.
It’s a Taoist idea originally.
We’ve been talking about going with the flow for years without, I suspect, putting it to the test.
What if I did?
My back was to the wall.
I didn’t fancy either choice, fighting or fleeing (although I did head for the hills, not really fleeing more like survival).
Having arrived there and, through a series of circumstances, I ended up living in a caravan offered by a new arrival in town.
I just happened to meet her at a meditation event that I felt I badly needed to calm me down from all the stress of bankruptcy.
Friend of a friend of a friend really.
She offered me her caravan parked outside the home they had just rented on their arrival in town.
Was that going with the flow?
Was what happened after that going with the flow?
Were the events that followed for 5 years afterwards going with the flow?
Was my time living in New York with a beautiful school teacher from New Jersey for 6 months going with the flow?
Was my 4 months living in the north of Italy between Milan and Venice at the foot of the Alps with an Italian nurse who sounded like Sophia Loren going with the flow?
And was my instant response 5 years later to my daughter’s call for help from Surfer’s Paradise thousands of kilometres away going with the flow?
Where I stayed for a year having the most wonderful reunion together.
And that’s not even the half of it.
Aren’t you just a little curious to know the full story of how I got out from under by going with the flow?
And to read of my romantic adventures both here in Australia and in New York and northern Italy?
I almost forgot, there’s the historical mystery, started by a ghost, I solved and share with the reader as it unfolded for me.
It’s a fun and entertaining adventure – just by going with the flow.
Such a more peaceful way than either fight or flight.
And so much more fun.
You can order your copy of ‘Back to the Wall’ from the publisher HERE or from Amazon HERE.
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