On a fresh September afternoon, covered by a shiny powder of sun falling through the clouds on the coast, River looked Ocean in the eyes: "Your greatness, I'm just a tiny river like all of us, so many on the planet. Every day I flow into you, yet every day on the journey I miss you. All rivers want to be oceans. Is there anything You would wish to be?" Silence.
River, listening to the cold wind that blew fiercely, said to herself: one day, I will remember that forgotten wisdom. She didn't know what that wisdom was, but she had faith, and kept flowing. At times River was wondering why her way was this one, why the line she was drawing on earth was so precise. She then remembered something called destiny and saw her borders all along the way. At other times, when she could raise up in the sky like a bird, she could see how tiny she was at the source, how powerful on the path and how full of memories towards the end. The end was not an end, she saw, but a melting with Ocean. Rare were the moments she could raise her spirit that high. Mostly she was caught in dizzy vibes, slipping quickly between sharp stones or caressing round ones, or stuck in a slum, sleepy pond, where people came to wash their bodies or to play. Back home at the source, she could hear stones falling down the mountain. The great mountain had an age too; he still had long to live and yet, he had an age. On her course, she was mostly chatting with the wind, asking him to take her again on his wings, as she so much liked to see her body from a distance.
Tired by this much thinking, River got down to her benches and returned to indulging the awareness of feeling - the fish, the stones, the humans, the birds, the wind, a brother river joining in. The moon was rising, bright and warm like a banana pancake soaked in thick honey. River fell asleep smiling at her fantasy and her waters kept rolling, not caring much whether River was asleep or awake.