The Ocean

There is an ocean.
Its depths are unimaginable, unthinkable, and dark.
Some simply float on its surface: safe, dry, ignorant.
Others plunge beneath, and begin to explore. They are fascinated, and confused, because they do not understand what they have entered into. They gasp in awe of what they see, and their lungs fill with the murk, and they drown.
Some, however, know what lies within.
They know the depths, because the depths are their own.
These are the ones who learn to breathe underwater.
These are the ones who survive.