Waves of Love 

14/02/20

It’s Valentine’s day so I thought I’d write a little something about love. I’ve read symposium, I’ve fallen in love, in lust, and out of love and all three experiences have been worthwhile. Maybe they have not always beautiful but useful in that I’ve learnt from them and they have inspired me, challenged me to grow.

Though my first love was with no human form, it was with the sea. She healed me unconsitionally and saved me in times when I wanted to escape. And I have been thinking, a love between a vast stretch of water and a human may not be as different as it seems. Humans too are vast and everchanging, flowing from one mood to another: changing minds, changing tides. And like water, many humans are difficult to grasp onto, dangerous to navigate and to submerge too deeply below their surface could be fatal, or wonderful, depending on their depths and undercurrents. And at first, like the sea, the human you fall in love with can seem so much more than you: wiser, greater, more powerful, encompassing and purposeful, a body who is able to carry you no matter your weight or voice. But of course, in reality, you together are one, it is your lungs that cause you to float and on material levels you are composed the same substance: water, love and chemical mixtures.

The difference therefore between loving a mass of water to a mass of sapien is in the mind of the one doing the loving. When one loves the sea, they do not wish to change it, or understand it, or question why some waves come larger than others. And they do not want to shape it either, the ripples it creates as a stone falls upon its surface are perfect, just as the way it also gently and naturally, in its own cruel or kind ways, carries ships across to islands and away from storms. Its world and existance is simply trusted. There’s no doubt about the whispers it blows onto the shore mor the debris it spews from its swells. She simply does for herself, the sea, and all underneath her surface, she is simply flowing. The mind of her lover is simply in love and that love is unspeakable, almost unconscious.

Happy Valentine’s Day.