THE RIPPLE EFFECT - "THROW YOUR STONE IN WATER "(SKIPPING STONE)

The Ripple Effect - "Throw your stone in water "(Skipping Stone)

Hello 😊👋my dear reader I hope your days are filled with beautiful coloured rays of happiness and nights are quiet and peaceful filled with beautiful dreams.

In this blog I am talking about "The Ripple Effect " - Throw your stone in water (Skipping Stone).

Hope you must have enjoyed this game of skipping stone whenever you have visited any water body like a pond ,a lake or even any sea coast. As you know the Ripple Effect helps us to initiate something from a small action which then propagates outward resulting into big changes. 

I noticed this skipping stone fun as a strong metaphorical representation of our actions and their impact on our tasks, our goals, also on people and situations involved in that goal or task. In order to achieve something meaningful, you need to initiate from somewhere and throwing your stone represents this very act of initiation. In this act the pond or lake water represents your life and which remain still and goes nowhere. Life remains stuck at the same level and to grow you need to churn it by initiating some action. To expand your approach and to upgrade yourself, throw your stone into your life's water to clear the stuckness. Once the ripples created will automatically help you to understand the situation and multiply your efforts and your reach towards the goal too. 

Here throwing stones represents your actions, your intentions, your behaviour towards your goals. The ripples created when the stone hit the water surface represents the impact of your actions. The more energy you put while throwing the stone, the greater will be the impact and much area of the water surface will be affected by these strong ripples. Hence, the more beautiful results you will get.  

The stone represents the tools and skills that you use to assist and complete your tasks efficiently and effectively. The energy that you put to throw this stone represents your intentions, your actions, your words that you do or say to the people and situations you deal with. This means that you are required to choose a proper size of stone (tool) and put all your efforts (skills, knowledge, wisdom, creativity, etc) to throw it to the maximum distance and that too at a very apt angle, the stone will hit the water surface (your goal) with such a great impact enough to produce bigger ripples. These ripples indicates your reach of actions and efforts towards your goal. The more they expand outwardly, the more effectively you will progress, grow and achieve what you have planned.

Throwing stones means initiating something though it could be at a very small level which grows slowly just like these ripples. The results could be both negative or positive depending upon your intentions with which you have thrown your stone. Always think before throwing your stone in water, I mean think before initiating anything. Since, your actions and your intentions both should be creating positive impact on your task and not anything which degrades you. Always be optimistic and put positive energy into your stone to achieve beautiful results.

Now if we see it in another way, i.e the different water bodies in which we throw our stones represent life of different kinds of people like Ocean kind, Lake kind and Pond kind. 

With this imagination we check the impact of this skipping stone on different types of people. 

Out of these the biggest impact of throwing stones will be seen in a pond. The peaceful state of a small pond can easily be disturbed by throwing even a small stone and these ripples created will travel outward from the point where the stone hits the water surface and disturb the stillness. The amount of disturbance depends upon the amount of energy you give to the stone and of course the size of the very stone you throw. This energy (your intentions and actions) then transfers from the stone to the water molecules when it hits the water surface. This action creates these circular ripples which expands outward and lasts till the impact of energy remains. Here, I would strongly like to suggest that the energy and intentions that you put into your stone should be a positive and enhancing one because once you initiate or trigger someone, their whole life could be stirred. So be careful about your actions and your intentions. Use discernment before triggering, before throwing your stone into your life's water or someone else's. This positive approach of yours will help such pond like people to grow and learn more. They start doing things with a different perception. Their life expands to a new level. They stop fearing about outside world.

The second type of water body is the lake where too we can enjoy this skipping stone perfectly and the process and results will be same as we see in the case of a pond. The only difference is in the distance which you can reach while throwing the stone in a lake . As the distance you reach will be smaller due to its huge size where you cannot reach the centre as compared to the pond where you can impact at the very centre point as you can reach that distance easily because of pond's small size.

So now let me explain what exactly I want to say. This skipping stone fun is full of life's lesson. It projects both positive and negative sides of life's scenarios. 

Let's speak about the darker side first. If you picture yourself as a pond, in that case your inner peace, your calmness can easily be disturbed by anyone for their fun. If someone throws a bigger stone then the impact will be much larger and create bigger ripples, confirming longer staying impact. You could possibly be completely jolted. Your whole life could be churned and filled with chaos. So for the sake of your wellbeing you need to increase your inner strength. You need to work on your overall growth to fix this trouble of being easily get disturbed even by a slight touch of a small stone.

There is a Chinese proverb "A blind horse always frightens itself. " This proverb explains that when a horse is blind, cannot see and will react to each and every sound unable to differentiate what's really threatening or mere harmless movements in the surrounding. It feels danger all the time. This depicts people who lacks knowledge and lives in a state of confusion. This highlights the importance of awareness, knowledge and getting more confident to face any unexpected events in life.

These ponds like people with little knowledge cannot withstand bigger turbulence created by throwing stones by some mischievous individuals. Just like the blind horse they always live in a fear that someone may come and disturb their peace. Here, what much needed is to uplift yourself, increase your knowledge, fix your fears and work on building your inner strength thus, shape your  personality by expanding your knowledge, developing practical approach, learning new skills and turn yourself into a huge lake. Now, here you may say that even one can disturb the peace of a still and calm lake too no matter how huge it is. My dear reader I would like to say in this case the mischievous fun creator( skipping stone lover) will need to put much effort to disturb a Lake kind of person and of course the portion that get affected will be very small.

When this Lake kind of person continuously goes on adding further knowledge, develops extra skills, keeps refreshing his energies, doing inner work, then one day this Lake kind of person emerges out as an Ocean like individual. An Ocean has its own strong waves where throwing stones will be of no fun as this act can't produce ripples in it.  

Adding to this I must say after expanding life from a Pond to a Lake and further to an Ocean will let you become more confident, balanced, capable, satisfied, joyful and a wonderful person whom no one can disturb how hard they try to throw stone into your life's water.

So my dear reader in this way we saw the effect of throwing stones into your own life's water and others too. Hope my blog may help you to understand the need of throwing stones into your life's water. Even if you throw stones into other people's life's water, be wise, thoughtful and friendly to do so. Keep your intentions optimistic. Be mindful and make sure that your action of throwing stones should help you as well as others to propel towards the positive and brighter side of life. 

Always put the energy of love, care, passion, happiness, strength, abundance, peace, compassion, humbleness, delightful, uplifting, vibrant and all the goodness of your heart 💜 into your stone before throwing it into the water to initiate any task and to achieve excellent, effective, outstanding, superb, thriving and victorious results. Multiply all the goodness in your life through these Ripples.

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