All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.
I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.
For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.
I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.
From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
Surfing big waves is not an extreme sport to me. I fall off, tumble down, and come up. My heart's racing because I'm thinking I almost drowned, and I thank God I can breathe again, but I always think, 'What am I hitting?' Water.
I just believe that sometimes in life you're like a shark - you have to keep moving through water; otherwise, you'll die.
Born on an island, I could swim before I could walk, thrown many times into swimming pools and warm transparent Caribbean waters: sink or swim, that was my first lesson. While I'm not a natural athlete, I'm still a strong swimmer and feel a great affinity with the sea.
If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.