Depths of Love

Howard Hall once said, ~Scuba diving is like traveling to another world, a world where the rules are different and everything is more beautiful.~ If you think about it, when it comes to love/true love in regard to a strong, worthwhile relationship it can most definitely be compared to a scuba diver exploring the vast beauty and mysterious wonder of the ocean. For it’s a thought provoking situation indeed knowing there are areas of the ocean that haven’t been explored, which can also be said about the human heart as well. Essentially, when you find yourself “diving” into matters of the heart with a certain guy/girl in question one hopes it’s a wondrously beautiful experience instead of it being deep, dark, and incredibly murky.

Let me ask this question to those who have been scuba diving before, what happens when you dive deeper into the ocean? If you answered feeling the increase in pressure then you’d be correct. In a way, that same pressure can certainly be felt while you’re diving deeper, so to speak, into your own thoughts, feelings, and/or emotions pertaining to a potential scuba diving partner for life. Thinking about it further, the aforementioned pressure you’re feeling within your own heart can be absolutely scary to the point where one reacts in the following two ways: 1.) stay calm and keep yourself in check mentally/emotionally. OR 2.) completely freak out because the pressure was too much to handle.

As I said before, the pressure felt diving deeper into one’s thoughts, feelings and/or emotions is a scary experience because it has the propensity to have a person react by either staying calm or completely freaking out. In a sense, every person has found themselves diving too deep mentally and emotionally, in a manner of speaking, to where fear takes hold causing a frantically, desperate escape from the depths of one’s incredibly dark, murky inner surroundings. However, what they end up doing is getting lost. Why? What it primarily comes down to is how that pressure has the ability to throw our sense of direction off, especially when we find ourselves deep within the dark, watery caverns of our own heart.

For the question can be asked: other than drowning what do you not want to have happen when you’re scuba diving? I think it’s safe to say not wanting to go through the phenomenon that is decompression sickness otherwise known as "the bends". Oftentimes, when you’re mentally/emotionally lost within the dark, watery caverns of your own heart, the instinct in wanting to quickly get out from the inner turmoil to in all intents and purposes reach the surface kicks in. Unfortunately, that’s a mistake because it causes individuals to experience the bends representing fear, anger, hatred, doubt, worry, sadness, frustration, bitterness, disappointment, etc. Sadly, there are a number of divers who are still dealing with the bends pertaining to issues of a painfully bad past relationship.

Someone once said, ~Dive into the deep blue and discover the beauty of the underwater world.~ In retrospect, the ocean and human heart are very similar because the deeper you go the darker it gets, which is a very frightening dichotomy. True, you’ll feel the pressure and maybe even want to freak out because of fearing the absolute unknown. However, it’s totally worth it knowing there are countless unexplored areas and untold treasures that have yet to be discovered as it pertains to true happiness. In the end, if you have that determination to dive down deeper into the depths of love despite the uncertainty, it shows you’re willing to search for something absolutely beautiful that hopefully comes to light in the darkness.