The sound of one hand clapping

"Once upon a time a baby fish asked an older, larger fish about the sea. 'What is the sea?' he asked. 'I keep hearing about it, but I don't know what it is.' 'Why, the sea is all around you, little one,' said the grownup fish. 'If that's so, why can't I see it?' asked the young fish. 'Because it is everywhere. It surrounds you. It's invisible and outside you. You were born in the sea and you will die in the sea. What's more, you yourself are the life of the sea. When you swim, you reveal its presence. It's just because it's so close to you that it's very hard to see. But don't worry, it's here.' "

-Rafe Martin and Manuela Soares, from "One Hand Clapping"

It's not going to happen when you graduate from lawschool, when you finally kick that smoking habit, when you lose that ten pounds, when you find your true love, when you get out of this [boring/overly political/unartistic/gentrified/dangerous] city - if it can't happen right now. And yet that doesn't mean that you shouldn't change. In fact it means that you should change, but that the change doesn't matter, or is not change but an truer expression of your nature...Dear heavens, I don't understand either.

But I presume. Do you understand? If so, please share, O Enlightened One.