The Flow of the River

"Water Over a Cliff" by Drew John Tankersley

Happy sez- People, including myself, often think of time and life as water or more precisely as the flow of water and I think in many ways that makes a pretty good analogy.  Time or really life ( time is not money but it is life) can be
a lot like water - always flowing even though many times life, like still water can seem stagnate but still water does not stay still forever, it either soaks in or evaporates - but it never stays still, and life in that respect is like water, it always keeps on moving.  The flow of life, like the flow of water in a river is sometimes dirty, sometimes clear and clean, often turbulent and occasionally placid and like the flow of a river life takes you where it goes.  You may, if lucky, be able to steer yourself within the currant of the river, or even determine the position in which you swim or float, but you are going to go where the river takes you.  This, of course begs a bigger question, where does the river go?  This will inevitably lead to ever more questions such as does it fork?  If so, will I be able to choose which fork I take?  The many layers of this analogy is one that many people could write volumes about and is something we can look at many times though many different perspectives.  Please let me know your thoughts on this.  Tell what you think.

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