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As a child, I used to have a recurrent dream. In this dream, I was falling into a pool of water and could not breath. An array of light drifted through the bluish space above. Then I would see the dark shadows of two dolphins swimming down to catch me. I was in a place where I could not hear, feel or smell, without gravity or time , falling into a body of seemingly endless space. Eventually, I told my mother of this dream, how I fell into a pool of water. She told me that as an infant, I fell into a swimming pool and nearly drowned. Today I realize that in life there are many times that we comfortably fall through the water. "Sink or swim," as the traditionalists would say and that while we don't always manage to swim, we likewise don't always drowned. That what might seem frightening for me today, may only be an odd dream tomorrow. I can accept for me today that someday I will no longer have the breath of life again. It is then that I wish to be thrown into a lake, an ocean a sea or some large body of water, where I will not see, hear, taste, touch or smell, without gravity or time, and return once again to that place where dolphins dream. |
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