Everyone likes to think that they can change the world with their passion and their grit. But what they don’t realize is that they are merely a pebble in the riverbed of life.

As a pebble, no matter what they do, they will not be able to change the direction of the flow of the river. But, as a group of pebbles, they form the bed, and can change the direction of the river as the bed changes the direction of the flow.

I think the hardest thing for me to accept throughout my life is that I cannot change the direction of the river, for I am merely a pebble. And it sometimes seems that the rest of the riverbed just wants to go with the flow.