I think surfers have it way too easy. I think they are doing the same thing physicially that we are all trying to do (and failing to understand) metaphorically.
Living itself takes energy; it takes energy to move, to do, to eat, to sit, stand and walk (not to mention run). But unlike much of the universe I have been given a gift; I can create. I can independently change the universe in any way I desire. This difference seperates me from the rock, which has no choice in entire existance. I'm not like the quark, which must be bound up in its group. I'm not even the tree, which must stay rooted in the wind. I am the thing I call I, which can alter and affect reality. The catch is the exhibition of any action requires energy to be spent, which sounds like a tiring existance! So how can I think that life isn't one big burden, subject to the kind of demoaning that occurs when one ponders metaphysical implications of entropy?
Well, Surfers have figured it out. Despite the fact that doing so is exhausting, painful, and seemingly impossible, they go out every day and try to catch that wave. And when they do, the energy that is felt pushes them forwards physically and experentially. And if the unique, awesome part of me that makes me me is the ability to create, then if I can find (and ride) waves of creative energy, I will be a bit closer to that elusive yet universally desired state of happiness.
The surfers have it easy, since they are given this answer, right there in the wave.
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