“Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.”
“When you drop a pebble into a pond, ripples spread out, changing all the water in the pool. The ripples hit the shore and rebound, bumping into one another, breaking each other apart. In some small way, the pond is never the same again.”
“After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.”
“A stone has been cast into the reliable immutable pond of the past, and as the ripples subside everything appears different. The reflections are quite other; everything has swung and shattered, it is all beyond recovery”
“But once you throw a stone, there are ripples in the pond, even if you remove the rock.”
“Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over...”