A Talk with the River (a story of continuity)

This is about the one time that I had a conversation with a particular river. It was a unprecedented encounter that I had with the river. Now it should be noted that not all river can speak. This is equivalent to human being. As we know that human beings can speak only after a certain age. Since the age of a river is so tremendous, only the right aged ones can speak. Even then that is a theory because I only found one. Maybe there is only this one river or some more like this one in the whole world which can talk back. I am taking about the afternoon that I went to the bank of the mighty river called the "manabara". This river originates in the west and flows towards the east then to north and takes a 180 degree turn to move towards south and then to the west and finally merge with the ocean in the south. It is such a zig zaggy river with respect to its course. Anyways I think I might have digressed a little bit here. Let me come to what I set out to tell.