For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
If you direct your attention to the position of a bird with regard to the wave surface, it will speedily be noticed to be nearly always on the rising side or face of the wave and moving apparently at right angles to the wave's course, but really diagonal to it.