On life and water

There is an old saying in Taoism that says "Rocks are hard and unyielding, the river flows around them and forgets".
In each of our lives, there are rocks. Like the water from the river, we encounter them not because we want to, but because it's nature. We splash violently against them, they break us, they change the course of our flow. But like the river, we find the path of least resistance and keep flowing downstream by going around them. Like the river, we find an "out" and what was a break in our flow only becomes a new direction for our life. Where the rock held us hostage for a while, we manage to free ourselves and move on.
Become the river.