this is it

Mind grooves. And thanks to John Hardham for this first one. I've been thinking about the drop and the ocean, how I am the drop (ego-individual) and the ocean (collective). I'm fairly careful, though, about how I interact with the collective, and I wondered about my trepidation. Exploring it, I see that I get a little worried about getting carried away with the collective, because of course the collective doesn't really have my individual interest in mind. There is the beautiful side of that -- being moved, taken, swept away to someplace new. There is the side that causes me trepidation -- not knowing where I am going and how that will effect me, the individual. How does one give up oneself completely to the collective, to the ocean?