>Watch the water. - Q
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A FISH OUT OF WATER
WRITTEN BY ⛨ NATASHA KOMIS
I remember dreaming of a place… different from what I saw around me… I had premonitions of myself in a FULL state. I was happy, and understood myself…
STEP 1: "THE DREAM"
I have flowed with the river all my life… It never felt right to settle and become the rock… I had always been that kind of salmon jumping up and down the stream… Everyday I jumped, I wanted to jump higher. This continued until I spotted A LAND. Other rocks told me to behave, but I could not stay put, especially after I saw the land, I KNEW there was more out there. I wanted to go to the land and wondered if there would be a river close by in case I needed to jump in to breathe? My mind was filled with questions that had no answers.
STEP 2: "THE IN CROWD"
I eventually met other salmon like myself. None of us listened to the rocks… we caused quite the stir in the river. We kept jumping and jumping. With each JUMP I got more and more of a glimpse of this other world. I started to train my body to jump higher. Kept practicing and practicing until one day I jumped HIGH ENOUGH and landed on the other side… At first I only had the ability to LOOK around… I stayed a while then jumped back to the river to breathe and tell other salmon and rocks what I saw… FEW were on my side and many LAUGHED. My obsession and curiosity grew over this land. I kept jumping over… Everyday the JUMP & ability to hold my breathe and RETURN to THE RIVER got easier, I went BACK AND FORTH, frequently…
STEP 3: "AT HOME"
When back in the River, I would THINK and wonder about this new place… I grew further and further from the rocks and salmon. Was this the place I truly belonged?? Were there others like me?? I wondered what would happen if I stayed on the land longer? Was there another source of water, in case I started to lose my ability to breathe?? Again, questions but no answers.
I eventually garnered the confidence and believed that even if I did not know how I would survive that I would learn. If worse came to worst, I could always head back into the River. I gathered some friends and asked them to jump with me…
STEP 4: "EXCITEMENT"
Day 1
We jumped, I landed, and the voyage began. After seeing the same thing, I felt the innate need to LOOK further, but in order to explore, I would need to MOVE. As a fish, I was only used to moving by swimming… On land how could this be done??
Day 2
I shimmied my body hard enough. Eventually, I learned to move on land. With every move, I saw more and more…
Day 3
I started to move deeper into the land… I found a bank of water and SWAM when needed. I looked back but something told me to KEEP moving. Something kept pulling me. My acclimation to the land, proved that I should KEEP GOING.
Day 4
I could see where my old river was… but I was losing the interest and idea for HOW to get back. The forest was growing, but since I stumbled upon the bank of water before, I believed there would be more, when I TRULY needed. I felt the confidence to KEEP GOING.
As I continued to MOVE, I realized, I had grown what appeared to be legs… I looked at myself and realized I was half fish and half creature of some sort… I was so busy EXPLORING I did not notice my new attributes.
I realized I earned the tools over my time spent in the forest, and that I could probably USE them to go DEEPER and FURTHER. I started to experiment using the legs to CRAWL…
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