a little nugget
a certain someone told me i should write even about the little things.
so here’s one.
i have a calendar from a printing company hanging in my pod at work, and this month’s picture is a serene image of a lighthouse overlooking the ocean. being october, it is a fall-ish scene, with trees of colors other than green.
at the time i looked up at this photo this afternoon, these lyrics came streaming through my itunes, compliments of moby*:
I don’t want to swim the ocean
I don’t want to fight the tide
I don’t want to swim forever
When it’s cold I’d like to die
people who know me know that these words don’t apply to me (well, maybe that last line, when chicago is encased in three feet of snow in the middle of february). only until i was 3 years old did i hate the water, but my dear grandfather washed away any fear i may have had when my parents were out of town one weekend.
and in more recent years, i’ve taken that love of water to greater depths.
but the thought that came to mind today was that some people have never seen the ocean. some have, but shy away, and others still have a grand fear of the unknown.
what lies beneath is actually what attracts me most as i introduce myself to a world that will go unnoticed and unexplored by the majority of the masses. as depressing as that is, i’m ok with that. more for me to enjoy.
*most songs by moby tend to remind me of the water’s edge, as that was typically the only CD i had going in my CD player during my escape of 2003.