Snorkeling Lesson

I love snorkeling. It's funny because it's something I definitely thought I would never even try... Because I have issues - major fear of creatures in the water and other miscellaneous things touching, scraping, or eating my legs unexpectedly. But I was in Hawaii, and fear keeping me from experiencing this just wasn't happening. So I did it. And I want to do it again.

Here is what I discovered: that oh-so-flattering mask allowed me to get over my anxiety. I had a great deal of visibility (I could see an amazing distance beyond where I was!) and extreme clarity concerning my immediate surroundings. You would think having such a close up clear view of the very stuff I feared would freak me right out of the water. Instead, the visibility and clarity completely changed my relationship with the situation. Maybe that's because the source of my anxiety and fear isn't actually where I was or where I was headed, but instead the inability to see it clearly... And then I realized, I do life like I do snorkeling.