Life used to be as easy and refreshing as a swim in the ocean when I was younger. Now you have to have a PHD to negotiate the simplest of whims. What’s the weather like? Is there a storm coming? Is the water free from riptides and undercurrents. Is the shore too crowded with unseemly characters or with people you can’t trust. Are they friend or foe? Will they help carry you across to shore if you can’t make it or will they sabotage your efforts for their own ill gotten gains. Will the once comforting swim be a leisurely activity or become an anxiety provoking challenge to the other side. The tide changes at every second and you need to