the great black immensity

by Maria Gabriela Oliveira Santos (Brazil)

A leap into the unknown Brazil

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I was 19 and I didn't know a huge part of the world, so I turned 20, and I discovered a small / large part of it. The sea. After a countdown not only to the arrival of midnight, but to the beginning of a new year, I was finally where I always wanted to be, all those photos and videos on social media made room for a real image, albeit blurred, covered by the dark night. How did the sea look to me? Scary and magnificent. I remember when my eyes caught sight of him, long after I had felt his evidence. The beach, in the middle of New Year's Eve was crowded, I was guided by friends and walked slowly, from a concrete floor to the soft sand and from it to a wet surface. The rest of my body also felt it. the heat between the bodies gave way to a strong breeze from a rough sea, my hair flew behind me, the salt water greeted me and challenged me to approach. My whole body knew before my eyes could see, I almost felt a struggle between my senses, my touch told everyone that he could feel the breeze, my nose screamed that was the winner while smelled the whole set of water, salt and sand, my hearing already mocked all of them when stating that could hear the waves of the sea breaking and my palate overflowed with joy because already felt salt particles on the tongue, in this story the vision just waited anxiously for its turn to contemplate the sea, but he found it different from everything he thought would find, it seemed like the end of the line, after the sand on the beach, he couldn't see anything more than a black immensity, he thought that maybe was where the earth's limit would be, or maybe it was some invisible force field, you know? As if the earth were covered by a black shield, a great dark bubble. However, as I got closer and closer to the sea, my vision got used to the darkness and I could see that there was the sea itself, a heap of salt water with its great waves and its beautiful wedding veil, it was more mysterious than ever under in the moonlight, however, even at night, I could perceive its great beauty, it is it that makes itself beautiful and attracts looks, that brings calm to the afflicted is the inspiration of the writers. However, it is beyond, since there is life in it, and therefore a connection, between those who live on the earthly surface and those submerged in its glorious liquid. There are many differences between us and them, but still, life is the key element, it was from there, from that blue immensity, that we came, where life was born and developed, until she became a rebellious teenager and went out in search of others places, finding a new habitat on earth, and, perhaps, for homesickness, life missed touching and living again in a blue immensity, so it created wings and flew and flew, never really achieving the feat of its tact feel the sky, like the sea. After the big meeting, when I greeted the home of my ancestors and touched the liquid longing intrinsic to all terrestrial and aerial beings, I shouted "Live to life!".