Life is like a river

"However any attempt to select out the special moments of our life may be a grave mistake. It may be that life can only be judged as a whole, in extenso, and not by its separate parts, not by taking one day and rejecting another, not by separating out the years like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, in order to conclude that this bit was very good and this bit was very bad. The fact is that everything that lives is like a river, with no shortcuts and no halts along the way." -from Obabakoak by Bernardo Atzaga