What is life but a stone thrown into the deep water? True.
But there are many different kinds of stone
and many different ways to throw them.
You can throw a stone so it may skip across the surface many times with gusto or it may simply drown with no more than a muffled moan or kiss the water and slink into its embrace, leaving slowly fading ripples, or, very rarely, there is a stone, like pumice, so light, it rides across the waves for so long that it may seem ...
forever.