Swimming through life, swimmingly.

Whirlpools.

Don't get sucked in; we can't avoid being in the water--the water is Life.

We may, in stillness, be able to detect the direction the whirlpool is swirling from, and swim away from it; and in more stillness, wait for it to subside.

Breathe.

The whirlpool is temporary--though the more people it sucks in, the longer it may linger.

In stillness. Breathing.

The whirlpool subsides.

We swim along.

And maybe, when we do feel ourselves getting sucked in--don't fight it! It takes us for a ride and spits us out back into the water, perhaps unscathed, perhaps not; maybe we grew a little, maybe a lot.

Breathe deeply.  

The more we may try to scramble away, the longer fighting the whirlpool we stay.

In stillness, we quickly pass through; and we are still breathing.

Swimming along through life, swimmingly.