Swept on for ever to be lost in the stormy sea

Among the tens of thousands of movies on netflix, I finally picked Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives to watch. Like his recent film Whatever Works, these dramas are like small labs to experience human emotions and relationships. The results of the experiments: human emotions, 80% good, and 20% hopeless. Life is a river with no return, and we're just boats struggling and dancing in the rapids, like the song sung by young Marilyn Monroe:
There is a river called THE RIVER OF NO RETURN
Sometimes it's peaceful and sometimes wild and free!
Love is a trav'ler on THE RIVER OF NO RETURN
Swept on for ever to be lost in the stormy sea
I lost my love on the river and for ever my heart will yearn
Gone gone for ever down THE RIVER OF NO RETURN

In the storm and lightning in New York, some people hugged in relief, some people kissed in despair, and some people walked alone in the rain.
I like Woody Allen's eyes, sincere and helpless, we will approach, we will leave, we will move forward, we will stay, and we will truly live in beautiful or hopeless emotions.
Psychologist Willam James wrote:
“we must let our feelings go, and pay no regard to them whatever. To wrestle with a bad feeling only pins our attention on it, and keeps it still fastened in the mind: whereas, if we act as if from some better feeling, the old bad feeling soon folds its tent like an Arab, and silently steals away. "What
he's trying to say is that emotions are not intrinsically constant, but beliefs in the heart are, and we can change our lives to change our emotions.

Two recent readings This passionate "business" book (Rework by 37signals, Linchpin by Seth Godin), is full of ideas: change the world as a person, change yourself.
Life is a river of no return. But who cares. All we care about is to experience and change with our own thoughts.

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