You're swimming along a fast-moving river. every once in a while, it branches into a few streams. If you react fast enough, you can direct yourself into the stream that you want to go into, and feel good about yourself. That is, until the next junction looms. If you didn't manage to go down the path you wanted, you could try to swim against the current, and eventually tire yourself to the point of drowning. Or, you could just keep on going forward, and make sure that you succeed at the next junction. So the river flows, and so you flow along with it.
Complacency and regret are the two most dangerous things in life.
