In the search for peace there is freediving, the ability to leave the fickle needs of a race gone wrong behind you and dive deep into a blue that holds no percieved desire for status, no uncomprehendable rules and boundaries for misunderstood interactions with your fellow man.
To fall downwards, to feel the water skim over your skin, to read it's contact is to know where your are. Here there is no destruction, no continuous selfish acts toward apparent progress. Here we have yet to infest and consume with the arrogance of those not to be held responsible for the consequences of their actions.
I am often saddened by these thoughts, it bothers me that I feel this way, a concern only matched by knowing these feelings are not shared by as many as should.
This is how I came to fall in love with freediving.
Just for a moment a true sense of calm, a release, a sense of what once was. A sensation that lingers on at the surface, acting to enhance preparations for dives to come.
Pure escapism, we all need it.
Today is Friday 8th Feb 08. I wrote the above October 07 and do not recall doing so, however what saddens me is that I felt and still feel that way. But there you go, that's just me.
My quest for calm is still ongoing, made frustrating by the limited opportunity to dive due to work and logistics. So having tired of Beaches I chose to take a few days out just to chill, today is day 2. Day 1 consisted of chilling, sunbathing, eating and then down to the spa for a sauna, salt rub, mud treatment and mini massage. The process was quiet and I was gently led like a muppet from one bit to the next with a stupid grin on my face and the urge to hug the lovely lady who neither talked to me nor tried to sell me stuff ...... 'what I'm using now is our specially formulated anti-nastiness yourskinwillfalloffwithoutit balm moisturising lotion that only costs 45 bucks'.....etc etc.
Day 2? Jasper to the vets to have his bollocks off. Bless him. Bonus was the vet doing some funny little magnet/clickygadget type thing over his back to release some nasties from when he was hit by the car (hence how we came to have him in the first place). Jasper responded wonderfully, though was of course at the time unaware that he was about to have part of his manhood removed.....
The next 2 days should hopefully see me either freediving or diving and poncing around in a bikini. Will keep you posted, though may not be for 6 months.....
For a more comprehensive idea of what goes on in the life of jo, refer to Danny (fiance) as his blog is a damn site better......
