You can't walk on water...
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You can't walk on water because water gives. Rather than fight back, it simply gets out of the way and down you go. Almost anything is strong enough or powerful enough to make water retreat. That's why rivers and streams seldom run in a straight line. They are always going around obstacles rather than through them.
Yet, despite this wimpish quality, water always seems to get where it is going. It may have to take a circuitous route to get there, but it will always reach its goal. Ask any householder who has had difficulty with a leaking roof or a leaking basement and they will tell you how difficult it is to find and stop up the tiniest of leaks. In the long run, as the tales written on canyon walls reveal, it is water that ultimately prevails even over the most mighty of boulders. It is persistence, not might that gives water this quality of prevailing even over the toughest of obstacles.
Yet, despite this wimpish quality, water always seems to get where it is going. It may have to take a circuitous route to get there, but it will always reach its goal. Ask any householder who has had difficulty with a leaking roof or a leaking basement and they will tell you how difficult it is to find and stop up the tiniest of leaks. In the long run, as the tales written on canyon walls reveal, it is water that ultimately prevails even over the most mighty of boulders. It is persistence, not might that gives water this quality of prevailing even over the toughest of obstacles.
