Such a simple concept, yet so perfect for describing how I feel.

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If you’re caught in a torrent, and you try to get out of it by swimming against it, you’ll just wear yourself out and you’re still carried along with it. So the sensible thing to do, is to turn around and swim with it. And if you want to get out of it, swim towards the edge. But go with it. 

Same way when you’re sailing: always keep the wind in your sails. If you want to go against the wind, tack; but use the wind. 

So it’s this way, you know. We’re all in this great stream of change, which we call life. We are the stream. If you imagine you are separate from it, and you are being carried along by it, as if you were a cork, that’s a delusion. You are a wave of the stream itself, so get with it!

-Alan Watts