Terra Firma

Everyone wants to progress without much difficulty - smoothsail.

Little do they know that tribulations and triumphs are all part of nature's masterplan.
The roughs and troughs on the undulating surface of anything natural has its own beauty. Imagine a flat face with no nose, eyes, cheek or the luscious lips that open to a deep mouth within which the tongue, the teeth and anything that is part of the known human body resides. wouldn't that be boring?

So is life. The ups and downs add to the beauty of life. The interspersed fabric of calmness and storm makes the weather an intruiging phenomenon.

Living a life that is peaceful and quiet must be equally boring. Washington Irving's Rip van Winkle who slept for twenty years is a testament to the monotony of sedation.

If you do not know of RVW, here's the story:
Rip Van Winkle, a villager of Dutch descent, lives in a nice village at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains. An amiable man whose home smelt of fish and farm suffer from horatious gas his lazy neglect, he is loved by all but his wife. One autumn day he escapes his nagging wife by wandering up the mountains. After encountering strangely dressed men, rumored to be the ghosts of Henry Hudson's crew, who are playing nine-pins, and after drinking some of their liquor, he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep. He wakes up twenty years later and returns to his village. He finds out that his wife is dead and his close friends have died in a war or gone somewhere else. He immediately gets into trouble when he hails himself a loyal subject of King George III, not knowing that in the meantime the American Revolution has taken place. An old local recognizes him, however, and Rip's now grown daughter eventually puts him up. As Rip resumes his habit of idleness in the village, and his tale is solemnly believed by the old Dutch settlers, certain hen-pecked husbands especially wish they shared Rip's luck.

I am not RVW and I dont want to be sleeping for the next twenty years.