When someone asks "How are you?", one of our usual replies is that we are well.
It's good to recall the other meaning of the word "well". It means a reserve. A reservoir. Usually, a well brings to mind a place where we can get fresh, pure, clean water, and as we know, water is absolutely necessary for life, for survival. But a well can also be a storage place for anything else - a resource of energy, patience, perseverance, determination.
So, the next time we say that we are well, let's remember that each of us is indeed a pool of power. A store of strength. Resources, energies we can draw on, like drawing water out of a reservoir, at any time we need something extra to get us through any challenging moment.
