... Iam convinced that life must be accepted such as it is given to us. That is the real first commandment, prior the other ten. All events are in the hands of God, and we know nothing about their evolution. I am trying to say that to accept life such as it is given is to ACCEPT THE UNFORESEEABLE.. You don't know what it will bring you, and that is precisely why you must accept it. Otherwise you are only HALF ALIVE, you are living like a non-swimmer wading near the shore, while the ocean is not really the ocean until YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR DEPTH.

( excerpts from Milan Kundera's Farewell Waltz)