RE: An Ocean of Stars - A Month of Daily Haiku (Day 26)
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Hi Raj,
I'm not going to upvote at this late date. That always looks like it lowers the award, so I just left a little tip.
Diving. I can't even swim. But I have that sense of being lost from myself when I'm out in a field (alone) or in a wood. I went for hypnosis once and the hypnotist said I was the best subject he ever had. I just imagined I was in a field, next to a brook, and I was gone :)
I love your essay (you see how it affected me) and your haiku. What a writer you are. It is frustrating that the world doesn't know. But, maybe....someday.
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Thank you for the tip, and the wonderful feedback @agmoore 🙂
It sounds like we have similar reactions to nature and how it effects the creative process through inspiration. This may sound somewhat dramatic, but scuba diving was the catalyst which pulled me out of clinical depression. Before I learned to dive, and jumped out of my comfort zone backpacking around south east Asia, I was a completely different person. I had little hope in life if I'm honest, and it stemmed from having lost the connection with what makes my soul sing. Even as a child I was fascinated, and inspired by wild places and wildlife.
Somewhere along the path of life I'd lost that, and it came flooding back during that adventure backpacking, but most strongly on my first ocean dives around the reefs of Maya bay, and also in the Similain islands in Thailand (the location described in the anecdote in this post). Anyway, I won't go into all that any deeper, but it is testament to the power of nature to heal 🌿 🌱
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