exxy’s spot

I DID IT!!! i stayed at the bottom for more than 23minutes (which is my threshold point before i surface without a reasonable explanation but sheer loserhood) and now, i’m officially a certified open water diver =) WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! dreams do come true if you just go ahead with it…or you know someone who can help mwehehe

i wanted to cry while we were fish feeding in cathedral, our last dive site. i held a ball of bread in my right hand and the fishes just came at it! they were swarming around me and i can actually touch them if i want to.and i found nemo! and lotsa his cousins too! and a couple of dory-like fishes..and the black fish with a dot on its tail…for a few minutes i actually forgot i was underwater..i just giggled at the fishes that ate from my hand. they look so…alive.i looooooooove the underwater world! oh, on our first dive we got a kinda-scary experience when saw a shark-like thing (no kidding!) swimming near our location. it was a barracuda.whew! but it looked like a shark for a couple of seconds…      

at first i thought that getting a diving license would be too much of a splurge for a tightwad like me but then again,it’s in my list of things to do before i die.and if i wait until i become a lawyer (gift to myself, as originally planned) what if i’m not destined to be one? so,i went ahead and literally took the plunge.

it’s worth it.

the sensation of weighlessness and the beauty of the underwater world cannot be described with words. you have to actually see it to realize the wonder and awe that photographers and explorers feel. i saw how the light play with the color of the corals and the fishes…and other organisms that i only see on national geographic.

they actually exist.

they are real.

and beautiful.

in the course of the dive, i sometimes cheat my instructor cause when i see something, i just stare at it, forgetting to breathe (WHICH IS A MORTAL SIN IN DIVING). but in the end, i somehow manage to conquer my fears and stayed at the bottom. long enough to see the underwater world beyond snorkeling.

i can’t wait for my first fun dive! happiness can be achieved in one’s lifetime..if you just go ahead and do what you wanna do =)

   

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