It was evening time.

Looking out the window is now one of my favorite things. 

The sound of the city, the tiny dots of people moving around and the distant sounds from the traffic lights fascinate me. It’s amazing how much I can see from up here. 

I feel like a city girl but somehow, I don’t think I am. 

Either way, I’m grateful. Thankful for the view. For being able to see what I’d never have seen if life hadn’t brought me here.

I kept looking down. But my mind poked me to look up. I did and saw something I was only noticing for the first time. 

It was the ocean.

Behind the city lies the ocean. It was hypnotizing. Nature has always had that effect on me. 

It keeps me grounded. It reminds me of why I am here. It helps me make sense of a lot of senseless things. I even draw inspiration from it because I know it mirrors and serves as a guide for our lives. 

Have you even looked at the earth and sky and wondered about their vastness and the way they transcend borders?

And the mountains and how deeply rooted they are?

And the ocean? My God!

The ocean is what I see today. It is beautiful, cooling, and hypnotic.

But then, I became afraid.

I thought about the ocean’s depth and how man hasn’t even explored up to 80% of what lies beneath. 

It’s fascinating yet scary.

Fascinating for their mysteries, terrifying for their vastness but the only way we can learn and know about their depth is by exploring. 

For some reason, I found myself asking a quiet question:

Why are we always afraid of the unknown?

We are just like the ocean. We have a level of depth to us. I’ve never been afraid to go deep with people. I always learn from people’s depth. 

Somehow, the birds interrupted my thoughts.  They flew in formation. They challenged and reminded me how I should always move with purpose. 

They show me, like the ocean, that the earth is mine to explore. 

I paused and held my thoughts. 

The earth and ocean have some level of depth to them. 

And maybe what scares us isn’t the depth, but what we’ll discover within.

But beyond fear lies hope.

A quiet one: that the mysteries we haven’t explored come with discoveries.