duck's back

underwater everthing looks blurry.

i remember the first time i used swimming goggles: in the splash pool at Lindsay Park Pool in Calgary (now the Talisman Centre, oh Calgary, you're so good at selling yourself...)

Placing my face in the water, the bottom of the pool was clearly visible, if tinged with a blueish hue. Despite knowing better, despite feeling the water lapping against my face, despite standing chest deep in chlorinated water with the echoey sounds of a swimming pool reverberating around me, despite all this some reptilian part of my brain was convinced that i was looking through air, not water. so I breathed in. through my nose.

so the question is: why do we do stupid things when we obviously know better?

Must we finally surrender to the idea that there are some situations and people upon whom we will never make an impression, regardless of how hard we try? Instead, must we allow our energy to flow, like water, off?