Life is struggle! But we are on vacation, from life and from struggle both. Many employ some form of flotation device-rubber rings, tubes, rafts-placing these items strategically under their arms or necks or backsides, creating buoyancy, and thus rendering what is already almost effortless easier still. Most of us float in the direction of the current, swimming a little, or walking, or treading water. Here children scream-clinging to the walls or the nearest adult-until it is three feet deep once more. Even if you don’t move you will get somewhere and then return to wherever you started, and if we may speak of the depth of a metaphor, well, then, it is about three feet deep, excepting a brief stretch at which point it rises to six feet four. The Lazy River is a circle, it is wet, it has an artificial current. Then we all climb back into the metaphor. Sometimes we get out: for lunch, to read or to tan, never for very long. You, me, the children, our friends, their children, everybody else.
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