Dolphin

My sweetheart and I are headed for Hawaii this Saturday for our honeymoon. There we intend to embark on dives and tourist traps and enjoy the beauty of the island we are staying at.

Three days ago he suggested a dive that I had actually first pointed out. Apparently it is a dive that is not only spectacular but also a bit more remote then many. The attraction in this is that this will be a non-crowded and likely less touched area then many others.

The positive and negative sides of this dive is that it will be deeper then I have ever been and it will include ‘large aquatic life”. I have two deep fears Reader, when it comes to my mortality, drowning and/ or being eaten.

I know the being eaten fear should end with my life but I don’t like the idea of being eaten even after I have vacated my physical personal space. Screw the circle of life thing. I would really rather be cremated.

For the past few nights I have fitfully slept; imagining my lifeless body softly and finally sinking into a depthless dark blue pit.

I watch myself in utter dismay. My dream self rants to the echoing silence of muffled water, “But there is so much I have to see and do!”

Once at the bottom the shrimps come and eat me.

Very aggravating.

Then my day dream started while asleep last night. Once more I am drifting and in the deep and again I find myself lost and alone. Shadows ominously circle in the distance. Again I considered panicking; sucking up my air and sealing my fate of running out of breath – I felt a nudge on my fin.

My heart rate kicks up and in a futile attempt to leave me behind, jumps to the surface, which is many impossible feet above; as the rest of me turned around. I found myself face to face with the reassuring perpetual grin that so many sailors have found reassuring before me.

“Oh” I glarbal which of course makes me choke on water. I spit it out, my heart returns to my chest and I am allowed, for only an instant, to reach out and touch the grace of a creature we know so little about.

Now this may be a dream but for the record –Dolphins are HUGE when next to you. I mean really Huge. In aquariums and on TV they seem a little smaller than their human side kick but in my dream this friend was at least a foot taller than me.

My friend smiled, as only Dolphins can only smile, and drifted by me. He waited as I floated up thirty feet. He then drifted with me to the safe fifteen foot stop and waited as we counted down the mandatory safety stop. He followed me to the surface, slapping a wave in my face, the equivalent of a high five.

My friend waited several feet away as the boat approached.

As the boat neared and slowed to pick me up, I turned to smile my thanks but found my Dolphin was gone.

There, instead, was my sweetheart. He smiled back.