The Summary

Bacong is the river's name situated by the ancestral homes of the author's wife. He had been visiting the place for a dozen of summers and as always been tracing the course of the river back to it's course.

In one of his visits however, the author had noticed a certain significant thing that made him connect the river's course to the life of men. It was the course that had stopped for quite a stretch of dry scorching sand and then resumed its pace until it reached its destination, the wide ocean.

This manner of running its course, the author regarded the life of people who have overcome the obstacles and the hindrances int heir lives and come out victorious either in glory or in nobility of silent and patient eking out to the end. There was also the parallel of a person's life, who, when faced of obstacles tend to make himself incognito and was unable to come out of it but just placidly went to oblivion.

How apt indeed that the river in this story had done finished its course because of the greater heights it had began thus has the strength the wisdom how to do its duty towards mankind and nature.

Rivers like men are here on earth to serve its purpose: To give clean water for plants and animals and to men, to provide soothing effect on weary lives and be a panorama of beauty as you gaze and observe its course that if you are a spiritual person would enjoy this blissful scenery of grace and music.

The will of the river is to do its duty and to finished its course, even to the end until it reach the vast immensity of the ocean for their bulk be deposited to be taken up again and repeat the cycle on and on...