Things seem so simple from a distance, but they always reveal themselves as complex and complicated once you get closer to them.

It is never a single solution, but a sequence of actions that are required to accomplish any goal.

Sure, you push a button, but there are invisible mechanics performing what you intended to do with that click, all interrelated, all dependent on the exact timing and motion of the others.

It is no surprise at all that we live our lives reacting to a series of chain-reactions set off by either ourselves or by the world. And when one element is changed in the slightest bit, it can often have an effect on everything else, even those things that seem quite far away.

Sometimes the changes are for the better, but sometimes the changes effect you like a leaking dam.

Peter was quiet.

You pump in water, you pump it out. You didn't seem to change a thing. And yet, all the fish are dead.