Devoted to all those who come and go out of my life

Life and River
Today I understand the point Herman Hesse raises when he says we learn a lot from a river.A river is in constant turmoil. The upheavals, the quite moments, the raging waves and many more emotions all quite distinctly connected to life. But inside all these emotions the basic character of a river never changes; its basic tenet that of helping civilizations to grow and flourish. I think you got the point I am raising here. Life also brings all these emotions to fore every day. Some people choose to live with them while some stay away from them. There are so many similarities between these two that any conscious attempt of mine to elaborate will result in a chapter and I will loose the point behind this passage. I know this is not a passage since it spans across various lines but my limited knowledge of literature fails me in giving a meaning full definition to it.
Imagine you are sitting by the river side and seeing the river flow. Forget all that is happening in your life. Forget about the wind, birds, sun everything; just look at the river. I see the water , rocks , plants and many things flowing with the river. If the river is fast they just pass away while if the river is calm they stay there , they may stay there for centuries altogether but they are not permanent. And now if you could sit there by this riverside for ages without you yourself aging then you start to see that it was never persistent. It is always changing though blind to human eye. But since we have a restriction of aging and the duration of change is large we see these things constant and when we see these things constant we start associating them with emotions. I might sound clichéd, you may say that what new I am saying but then it is your decision to continue or just move out.
Now what I see in this river is everything I see people swimming in the river some sit with me for some time share some time with me and then leave while some just come for the sake of coming to make my sitting more complex. But if all these were to go and I could stay here on this river all alone talking to the river; which always was speaking something but I could not listen to it and I choose to listen to the creatures who came to make my life complex to divert my attention from the river; I understand the point that all will pass what remains is we with our rivers. And I was foolish to associate emotions with these people who had to fade away since that is there inborn tenet. They are the ones who trigger change by not being the same and the thing which is the same is this river. This is all just a game played by us set up very neatly by us. I might question how can this be set by us and played by us. So the answere to this lies in one more tenet which we have that is of action. All these emotions, reactions and associations to these sightings in the river are a result of our own actions. If all of us choose not to act then the riverside is a boring place to be but even one person choose to act then this chain of actions are triggered and we fall like the stock market.I base this on the simple law of action and reaction.
So I just ask this question who started this first action? Since for this action to happen also there must have been a motive. Someone would have thought and acted. So who is that person and upon deeper deliberation I found the culprit. It was none of the people sitting by the riverside but a bigger player. He in fact rolled the dice first and all just started playing like the Jumanji. When he rolled the dice the consequence was that we were all given a very remarkable feature of existence and for existence what was required was the nag to eat. This nagging desire of human made him to react. This very feeling made the man to take action and what I see is that rest is all history. And the game that God was playing with us is to come out of this plug and play game of action and reaction. Here I donot mean that we should stop eating/acting altogether; no; no way this is our feature but to see the life in broader perspective, the perspective which Buddha, Mahaveer, Jesus, Krishna and all the great saints of the world adopted.
The idea that nothing changed. When I say this I mean the basic tenet of the river has not changed it is still the same but only our association made it so complex and caused this despair and pain .