Deep Blue World

As i step in amidst my fear of sharks and anything that bites and thinks of me as food, i sink in deeper and deeper into the wild blue yonder. The weighlessness and the cool currents that envelope my partially covered body is a wonderful feeling as compared to the blazing hot sun above.

Once in the deep blue waters, my fear of sharks was the least of my concerns. Getting used to breathing compressed air and thru the mouth is a challenge for me. It is a bigger stretch cos when climbing up the mountains i have trained to breathe thru my nose and not gulp for air with my mouth so it was totally the opposite down here. While all this was being manually processed by my brain and carefully registered, my senses were tingling much like Spiderman's as lo and behold a whole new world opened up to me. My visual senses was going crazy at the sight and beauty that lay around me. All the stuff i see on National Geographic came to life right in front of me. Suddenly this fear slowly ebbed and i was in the moment experiencing the beauty of this new world.

Fear has always been a hurdle to the experience one wants to create and the only way to conquer it is to just... JUMP IN! This of cos does not mean that i am fearless and that i have made new friends with the sharks... far from it. I have also realised that smaller fries like the Trigger Fish is quite a bitch too and that my fear is more about not being in control of my environment than some fish in the sea.