sobrique | Waves and posting/reading

I was thinking, that swimming in the sea is a rather neat life metaphor.
Waves come along, and you've either got to ride over them, or through them, or swim away. Some swim further out, where there are bigger waves, others stick closer to the shore, and don't range so far. Sometimes a storm will blow up, and many waves will come in close succession.
Every now and then, the waves are too much, and you have to get someone who's a stronger swimmer to help out. You can always either founder, or keep swimming, but you've got no real choice about what waves come. (Except occasionally, when something you do causes ripples and possibly bigger waves)

Anyone got any other life metaphors? That's one of my personal favourites, but I'm sure each see the world a difference way.

Whilst I'm writing this, I'm actually installing Solaris on a few workstations. Thankfully the install process is automated, but it's still a good work avoidance blag.

So I thought I'd do a quick poll:
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