One can feel at times

like a spinning leaf

blown along a dirty street,

one can feel like a grain of sand

stuck in one place.

But nobody has said that life

was a calm and orderly thing: it isn't.

One isn't a tattered leaf nor a grain of sand:

one can, to greater or lesser degree

draw his road map and follow it.

- L. Ron Hubbard, from The Way to Happiness