The ducks slid through the water with what seemed to be no effort at all. They were breathtaking with their emerald feathers glittering in the sun. They were ducks being ducks and it was a beautiful sight. As Denzel Washington’s character in the “critically acclaimed” movie The Equalizer said when summarizing the book Moby Dick, “ The old man’s gotta be the old man. Fish gotta be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, right? No matter what.” Yet how often do I resist who I am? I compare myself to others and think I should be an eagle instead of a duck. I indulge in thoughts of how I should be different, better. I create suffering for myself. Then I have a moment when I accept who I am in this world and it doesn’t solve everything but I am closer to being that duck gliding through the water instead of fighting against how I uniquely think and feel and act.