Embracing Life’s Unknown Depths: Shaping Human Experiences

SWALLOWED WHOLE

The ocean is deep, and so are many problems that sink into the soul. With the ability to create such extreme agony, even breathing becomes a painstaking chore. So why then the misery, sorrow, the suffering? That question no one can answer with true clarity. Perhaps suffering is beyond human understanding, beyond our known reality or beyond our limited intellect to grasp. The only justice is the substance we create for ourselves as we travel through space and time with hope.

We hope for a better future, a brighter day. Hope carries us in times of despair and doubt. To live in hopelessness is to lose the passion to live and keep on living. For without hope, we lose ourselves and our will to the depths of the abyss of misery. So with causative persuasion, the only other option is to bask in the ocean that surrounds us. There is delight in being swallowed up in the unknown entrapments of daily life. To live in full knowledge of our lack of control, which may relieve our desire to control what is indeed uncontrollable.

Yet, our collective experiences shape who we are as a human species, just as a hand adjusts to fit a glove. The true value of what we derive from life experiences and our responses to them can either mold who we are for the better or for the worse.

The bottom line is that allowing ourselves to be swallowed up in the deep ocean might not be so bad after all. Perhaps letting go is all that’s needed to know when you’re in over your head anyway.

Written by: Naomi Nuggets 10/11/14