The Blue Heart

Related: VCFS, Management

by Quinn Bradlee
Monday, August 16, 2010

I have always felt a connection with the ocean; we forget that the ocean is a breathing and living thing. To most people it may not be, but to me it is. It is where we came from, and it is not our natural habitat, we do not belong in it. However at the same time we have learned how we can go in the ocean and explore it, which helps us learn who we are and how we got here, and how our planet was created

Oceans are full of life, and I have always wondered if in some possible way there was a living organism of some kind, living in the ocean from another planet. Without the ocean we would not survive. In fact, it almost seems as if it were human-instinct, if you will, to live near the ocean or some kind of water, because if you look in history, all of the earliest civilizations were built around the ocean. It is because of the ocean that towns prospered and became cites; and it is because of the ocean that we "humans" have won and lost wars, which have changed the culture of the world.

The ocean is very much like my brain. I say that because it constantly changes by itself and by other forces, such as the wind. Some days the ocean is calm and other days the ocean is in rage. In that way the ocean is like a human body; it has a brain... the moon. The moon is responsible for oceanic behavior, therefore I also believe that when the oceans behavior changes it changes the behavior of all living creatures inside the ocean.

I feel that when I step into the blue heart, as I like to call it, the heart of the world, my energy totally changes; I am completely different in every possible way; I think of nothing but the present. However you must always treat the ocean the same way you respect a woman; the ocean is a big lustrous beautiful lady.