On Monday after work, I felt myself spiraling into depression at the unraveling state of the nation. (An unfortunate byproduct of being so tuned into the news cycle.) So, I called my good friend, an actress and writer who happens to live just a few miles from the protests going on in Los Angeles, for some words of comfort and inspiration.
She was scared too, she said, but she was trying to remember to “Be like water.”
I’d seen the phrase in hashtags on a few social media posts, but I didn’t know what it meant. Turns out, it’s a rather famous Bruce Lee quote: “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it.”…