Stuck in the Impact Zone

When you go out surfing, sometimes you make it to the line up fairly easy. Sometimes you get stuck on your way there when a set of waves come. The set will keep breaking on your head as you duckdive one wave after another without making much progress towards your goal of riding waves. That place where you usually get stuck is referred to as the impact zone. It is not a very pleasant place to be. Still, there isn't much you can do about it, other than take it on the head and hope it will be over soon.
You can use that as a life analogy specially in these trying economic times. Sometimes you get stuck in the impact zone and run out of steam as one wave after another keeps breaking on your heads and preventing you to move ahead towards our goals. Maybe trying to power your way through it may not be the best option and patiently waiting for the "set of waves" to stop breaking may be wiser. Sometimes staying put works. Eventually...
The good news is that when the "set" stops breaking, you will be able to position yourself in the lineup, and then, you will be ready for a nice ride. A nice, relaxing ride that will make it worth your while going through the inconvenience of being stuck. It is exciting to see that ride when it is finally in front of you.
For the ones who do not surf you should try it. It will teach you what life should really be all about. And it will make you realize how everyone is so far from what life is supposed to be. For the ones who surf keep doing it and do not let the madness stop you from enjoying yourself. That advice is actually for all of us who are facing so much adversity. Just get back in the water...and everything will eventually work itself out. That ride will come around.