Life is like a flowing river. The river is calm and quiet on a flat land, but the water current gets fast when it meets a waterfall, and falls off the bottomless cliff. In the same way, our life flows smoothly but then it sometimes meets an unexpected slope.
There is a syndrome that likens the crisis of life to a big waterfall—the Niagara Syndrome. It indicates the situation where people flounder and struggle in the sudden crisis they face while spending time in the flow of the world with no clear goals and set of values.
Life is not like a pond that stays in its place, so we cannot avoid big and small crisis in our life. However, if we find the meaning of life, make a goal, and run toward to it, we can get strength that will not waver us in any situation. If we are ready to overcome even a rough and winding path, a waterfall will no longer be an object of fear, but just one of the gates toward our destination.