Bridget McNulty

You have to wait for the fish to come to you.

// May 19th, 2009 // Cape Town, Inspiration, Time

I went for a walk on the Sea Point Promenade with a friend this morning – a glorious, sunshiney, blue skied walk, and we were filling each other in on all the news from the last month or so.

I said to him that we’ve sent out all these proposals for funding for our Round the World trip (read more about it here) and that now we’re just waiting to hear back from people… not really my forte, waiting and patience and all that.

And he said, “Well, obviously you have to wait – you have to wait for the fish to come to you. You throw out your net, and then you wait for the fish to swim into it. It’s no good jumping in the water and trying to catch the fish with your hands, you’ll just get tangled in the net. If you’re fishing in the right spot, you just throw it in and wait.”

Huh. Makes sense, doesn’t it?