We don't know how long we'll be drifting like this and we don't know where we're drifting to.

It's an everlastingly big ocean we're on.

We ought to thank God we're not at the bottom of it now.

If we're lucky we'll be picked up soon, if not,--well, it's up to us, every one of us, to make the best of it.

We're alive, and that's certainly something.