Roll With It!

I’ve been recently contemplating the phrase “roll with the punches”. I have always liked the phrase, but lately I have been analyzing it more in debt.  Perhaps because I am at a point in my life where I feel a bit more vulnerable to the blows that life usually deals. 

I’ve been recently contemplating the power in the ability to roll with the punches.  It is more active way of dealing with things then, for example, “going with the flow” (not that I don’t like that image too, like a little stream flowing over rocks, it’s just that it is a more passive concept to me). Rolling with the punches comes from the boxing world, it is a way of rolling with the punch so that you minimize the impact the blow has to your body, enabling you to ready yourself to throw a punch yourself.

And that’s the thing isn’t it. Life has a tendency to come at us throwing some mean blows. We can’t change that, but we can learn ways to minimize the impact. Of course I’m still learning how to do this. But I think I am getting better at it.