Life is like the ocean, cold, empty and dark. It throws you this way and that, up and down, and even when you see the wave coming you are helpless in its path. Life is like the sea, it holds you in suspense, inescapable. It’s enormity is awe inspiring, terrifying, magnificent and horrific, and in it, despite your pretences and protestations, you are lost.
It may be that you cling desperately on to someone who in turn clings on to you, some mutual lifeguard, a saviour one to the other. But all that really happens is that you are cast adrift together, no navigator, no helmsman to guide you home; for ultimately you have already and always arrived: you see, drowning, whether alone or in tandem, is simply as good as it gets.
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