Enlightenment Through Disaster: Water Removal & Consciousness
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Osmund Aft
Osmund Aft is a writer of Water Damage stories for Babylon, NY Water Damage Restoration and Great Neck, NY water damage restoration By Osmund Aft
Published on 10/26/2008
Speed. Stamina. Perseverance. Patience. Leadership. Spirit. These are the key ingredients in winning a super bowl. They are also the exact same ingredients in making it through a flood in your home. Walking into or waking up to a flood is a devastating moment. After that moment of absolute terror subsides, you realize that you need to focus on water removal - and fast.
Speed. Stamina. Perseverance. Patience. Leadership. Spirit. These are the key ingredients in winning a super bowl. They are also the exact same ingredients in making it through a flood in your home. Walking into or waking up to a flood is a devastating moment. After that moment of absolute terror subsides, you realize that you need to focus on water removal - and fast. This is where a sense of Zen kicks in. It is a moment of oneness, where you become totally focused on the task at hand. Water removal is your only priority. Get it all out as fast as you possibly can.
It's funny how a moment of terror, fear and uncertainty brings forward the very best in us. It is our true selves emerging for our needs rather than our wants. Even though many people who go through this do a lot of cursing, and loathing they do it while the sub-conscious continues to focus on water removal with laser focus.
Disaster situations, like a flood within the home truly seems like one of the worst things to happen when being looked at from the outside in. As someone who hasn't been through a devastating flood, you immediately think to a box of keepsakes, and love letter from a distant past wading through a group of waters with streams of ink bobbing in unison. You think of the years of work involved in buying all the things that you have identified with as a reflection of yourself. Your castle, your kingdom, your private space becomes tainted and overrun by wetness. And you are left to do nothing but water removal.
What we don't see until being in the moment is the necessary disconnection with possessions. Life begins to make sense when your possessions are taken from you. Your self portrait is simply a collection of possessions. Every item is another piece of the puzzle which is you. Except that is not truly the case. Truly, we are but what's left when you take all those possessions away.
It's only when "disaster" strikes, that you lose your possessions, and hence lose your false sense of self. You lose all the things that you used to feel were precious. Of course you may lose items of sentimental value through a flood. The water removal process may have you accidentally destroy an old photo or love letter in the water. If this happens, remember that if the person who you identified with through the item is still alive, then you will find more enjoyment living through new sets of experiences that, if you want to, can create new items that you can call memories. If the person who you relate the item to is not alive, or around anymore, remember that you had a great time in that moment, but that the only thing that is truly real is the moment, and any moment look backwards or forwards removes you from the present, which is, in essence, all that matters.
It is this spiritual enlightenment that emerges through disasters such as floods & subsequent water removal. Like the rose in the concrete, your true self will emerge if the possessions that built the false you are taken away.
It's funny how a moment of terror, fear and uncertainty brings forward the very best in us. It is our true selves emerging for our needs rather than our wants. Even though many people who go through this do a lot of cursing, and loathing they do it while the sub-conscious continues to focus on water removal with laser focus.
Disaster situations, like a flood within the home truly seems like one of the worst things to happen when being looked at from the outside in. As someone who hasn't been through a devastating flood, you immediately think to a box of keepsakes, and love letter from a distant past wading through a group of waters with streams of ink bobbing in unison. You think of the years of work involved in buying all the things that you have identified with as a reflection of yourself. Your castle, your kingdom, your private space becomes tainted and overrun by wetness. And you are left to do nothing but water removal.
What we don't see until being in the moment is the necessary disconnection with possessions. Life begins to make sense when your possessions are taken from you. Your self portrait is simply a collection of possessions. Every item is another piece of the puzzle which is you. Except that is not truly the case. Truly, we are but what's left when you take all those possessions away.
It's only when "disaster" strikes, that you lose your possessions, and hence lose your false sense of self. You lose all the things that you used to feel were precious. Of course you may lose items of sentimental value through a flood. The water removal process may have you accidentally destroy an old photo or love letter in the water. If this happens, remember that if the person who you identified with through the item is still alive, then you will find more enjoyment living through new sets of experiences that, if you want to, can create new items that you can call memories. If the person who you relate the item to is not alive, or around anymore, remember that you had a great time in that moment, but that the only thing that is truly real is the moment, and any moment look backwards or forwards removes you from the present, which is, in essence, all that matters.
It is this spiritual enlightenment that emerges through disasters such as floods & subsequent water removal. Like the rose in the concrete, your true self will emerge if the possessions that built the false you are taken away.