Metaphors are like bridges ... (Mike Mccarthy)

Metaphors are like bridges, they give us a link where we can safely cross a stream to the far bank without letting go of the near and more familiar bank. They are like an exercise in consciousness which enables us to imagine the other side without the necessity of getting our feet wet. I find that I can run back and forth across that bridge I create because it remains still and fixed and permanent in my construct of reality.

But there is another truth, “you cannot step twice into the same stream”, and in getting our feet wet we experience the impermanence of our metaphors, we see that everything changes and nothing remains still.

Yet, the more things change the more they become familiar …