One day Confucius...
What an unoriginal way to begin an article! So often talk about Confucius is just an attempt to conceal superficial and facile writing under a condescending front.
But so what?
At this moment, as you are flying at some extraordinary quantity of feet in the air,
I feel like telling you one of these stories.
Something inside prompts me, so I'm succumbing to my own whim.

One day Confucius was watching the Lu Lang river, into which waterfalls plunged from great heights, and which flowed so fast that no fish could swim in its waters.
Just then he saw a man dive into the water.
Confucius thought that the man must be in trouble and had decided to take his own life, so he called his students to him immediately, lined them up on the bank, and commanded them to haul the man out of the water the moment he appeared.