I once stumbled upon a quote that stated “people are like oceans you cannot know them by their surfaces” I believe this couldn’t be more accurate.
People are very much like oceans in many ways. For one just like the ocean a person appearance isn’t always, as it seems. As the ocean can look at peace from the shore the same peace may not be found below the calming laps of the waves. If you would dive deep enough below the surface you would encounter another world that would perhaps be more beautiful than the surface,but not quite as peaceful. The same goes for people; for some people, there are tsunami (fact: you can not tell that a tsunami is taking place beneath the waves, until it moves closer to the shoreline) moving below their surfaces that go unseen by many until they crash to shore leaving damages that can not be undone.
Just as you cannot define what is going on beneath the waves without the proper knowledge, you cannot define a person without truly knowing them. I mean truly know them, knowing a person favorite color or food is doesn’t count, those are surfaces facts about a person that can be picked up on. I am talking about knowing the of parts of a person that are below the surface they present, what are the reasons they can’t sleep at night, do the prefer sunrise or sunset, what is their biggest fear, the list of questions is infinite. However, perhaps the most important of questions is what are qualities that you bare that make them willing to reveal you all of this.
Like it or not we all fall victim to presenting a shallow version of ourselves to the world at some point or another. But why shouldn’t we when there are SO few of people that actually deserve to know the deeper parts of us? However, we do not realize in doing this we are hiding some of the best parts of ourselves. For just like the oceans tide conceals the beauty of their seashells, until it sees fit to reveal them, we should do the same with the parts of ourselves.
For we are like the seashells,some parts of us have become broken when we have crashed to shore, others have survived the wreckage.The broken shells are still extraordinary, and so are we. Some people will wait on the shoreline for the shells to surface, others happened to be staggering by at the opportune time, however, only a small number of both types of people will find beauty in the shells. The same goes for people, only few will be captivated by the deeper parts of you, some may not realize the beauty of it until it is too late and the tide pulls you back. Fear not, though, for the people who do not see the beauty in it never deserved to be revealed it.
For the ocean is marvelous, breathtaking, awe-inspiring and mysterious, it desires to be known on a deeper level, by the ones who do not have a fear of depths. So treat me like the ocean,
For If you have a fear of shallow living you would drown in the depths of my thoughts.
People are like oceans.
I am an ocean.
Photo credit : Liz Tokarczyk
