it's like pushing a pebble up a hill while people stand around and watch, or pushing the occasional boulder up a hill and those same people watch, but no matter what happens when you push a something up a hill, you come to a place where apex meets gravity and what you were pushing is out of your hands, careening downhill and you will never catch up to your pebble (or boulder, whatever the case may be.)  it's the place you wade out into, up to your knees because your knees can take the cold…