River

As a man casts out his fly in the great depths in the river he must first become one with himself and God. The slow smooth motion, back and forth back and forth at the calm sound of the river a man is at peace with himself. In the film A River Runs Through It (1992), based on Norman Maclean's autobiography, Robert Redford presents the sport of fly-fishing as a metaphor for life. The art of fly-fishing represents becoming one with the rhythm of God. "Eventually," says one of the movie's main characters, "all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.” All things merge into one, one with God, one with the fish, and one with nature. The relaxation and the slow calm waters bring peace to one’s soul and bring them to rhythms of God’s powerful and beautiful creation.
Firstly, it his human enough to spend a moment before casting in a river trying to imagine what the fish is thinking, even if one of it’s eggs is as big as it’s brain and even if, when you swim u...