When the River Meets the Ocean, does it lose its identity or find its purpose?

When the river meets the ocean expansion happens, the river didn’t know or perhaps doesn’t know what to expect
Yet the river is open with curiosity. Imagining all the possibilities. Open to avenues of learning and knowing. It’s sense of purpose has merged with the ocean yet it keeps it original identity. If even in the face of change, converging the quiet or non quiet known with the yet to be. Where has expansion been waiting to meet you? Where are you in the precipice of converging with something new and yet you stand as you, as you explore a new in your life?

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