It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.
Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.
This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.
Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.
After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.