There was a time when many natural river courses were straightened. So a river that meandered was corrected into a straight, man-made riverbed, often with very smooth banks or embankments instead of natural ones. The advantages of this: you could control the river and you gained a lot of space because meandering took up a lot more space and that was not infrequently precious building land. All's well that ends well? Not really. As long as there was no increased rainfall, all was well. But in the case of heavy rainfall or violent thunderstorms, these corrections turned into a boomerang: the rivers quickly burst their banks and caused massive destruction. The supposedly gained and meanwhile cultivated land was flooded. So the meander certainly had its purpose. Take this example as an impulse to give yourself and others enough emotional and mental space to move - especially for times when things get stressful.
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