“Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure.” P116
One of the most comfortable places I could be is in the water. I grew up along the Chesapeake Bay and later on next to the James River. Swimming was always a part of my life, not necessarily in pools on a swim team, but more just swimming around for fun in the warm seasons. Of course, there were always those times that I would be jumping off of our boat and thinking to myself “I don’t even want to know what’s under me right now” but I never really had a fear of the water. When I was younger I had a friend attacked by a shark and even then, I didn’t have any problems swimming freely and without fear of anything. Now that I am older I am more knowledgeable about things such as statistically what is the likelihood of something happening to me or what risks I am taking. After reading this quote from the book, it honestly creeps me out and makes the ocean and just water in general seem risky and dangerous. Of course it does have some truth to it, but I never really gave it any thought. I reinforces the idea we discussed in class about how the ocean is really the last true wilderness because it is almost untouched and still very mysterious to us. There is so much that is unknown about the deep waters that it intimidates and scares us when really the only danger comes from us as humans interfering with what was already there before us.
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