Life: Water or Seagull?

Is there a river near the place where you live? Observe it for a while. Or just imagine looking at the flowing water that runs towards the ocean. It seems to invite you to reflect upon your life, on how it flows, eternally, with no possibility of stopping it even for an instant, nor having it go back even a few inches. Everything goes forward, everything moves ahead and you can't but "allow" it, because life's movement is not for you, or for anybody, to determine. You can only decide on "how" to move, on how to "go with the flow". But if you try to stop it, you will be dragged away by the strength of the current. If you choose to swim without knowing how, you will have a hard time staying afloat. You could also decide to be carried by someone else, but in so doing you will miss the thrill of the swim. Some fools might even try to swim "against" the current, ending up... who knows where (but surely not where they had planned of going!). If you wisely decide to swim "with" the flow, you will be able to drift like a seagull and move freely through the sky, with neither boundaries nor restrictions. In this way, you will "peacefully" reach the ocean, or the top of a mountain, i.e. your final destination.