The flow of the water

Funny thing. When someone I know observed that water seeks its own natural course, I found it to be true. Working in my yard, I could create little canals to channel runoff from these constant rain storms we are having, and the water would flow through them yet they would soon peter out. But once I found the water's natural inclination, it was obvious, the flow was continuous. It was as if the water was happy.
I think that energy is like water. We are the most content and fulfilled when our energy flows to its inclination. I have always found a bolder being in my path as a valid picture of moments of frustration. As when a landslide blocks my flow, my energy path becomes diverted. This is not to say that I don't try to flow around or under the obstacle I see, but it is to say that my frustration reflects the need in me to flow according to my personal inclination.
We tend to say, 'when I finish this project or deal with this moment, I can get back to my self again', even as we are aware that 'tomorrow' never seems to come. How many times have I wondered why those moments of being in sync never seemed to last more that twenty four hours before I was back dealing with obstacles. It would seem to me that obstacle could be another word for obligation. My obligations appear to obstruct my natural flow and I become consumed with discharging them in order to be released to be myself as I would see myself.
Now that is something to think about, for it exposes the relevance of defining obligation and invites a picture of whether obligations float into our lives out of the blue, or do we attract them or even better do we create circumstances that promote them. So in that vein, we could ask how does obligation specifically serve us. I could even imagine creating obligation in order to ignore it, reject it, prevaricate with it, perhaps even defying it. A perverse sense of power lays in how we handle obligation but that's another story. Because what appears to me to be at the core of this essay is more to the point how we honor and promote our own natural flow.