“I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came.” – John F. Kennedy

The cure for anything is salt water, whether it be sweat, tears, or the sea. Us as humans all have our different ideas of what perfect should look like; we all have our different opinions of heaven, different opinions of our happy place. The pressures, the stressors of life, affect everyone. && sometimes, people just need to be able to calm themselves, they need to be able to reach their happy medium so they can continue on with life. Sometimes we need to go somewhere to watch something else show how to be calm, sometimes we need to go back “from whence we came”.

If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both just mixtures of salt and water. And yet, it seems that the ocean does a better job at calming itself than we are able to. The ocean has been around as long as the earth, so maybe just like anything else, calming oneself takes practice.

People react the same as the ocean. They will call you names and keep you down as if you are a drop of water, because they are afraid of what you will do when you discover you are a hurricane. Humans fear mother nature because we are on her schedule; her calm is very calm, very peaceful, very warming. But her storm, oh her storm. And you wonder if people can give you the same pain as mother nature gives to her world. Its both the same, is it not? Mother nature loves the earth so much she does anything she can to keep it calm. But when she is set off, she is the deadliest weapon known. This just goes to show that no matter what your storm, if mother nature can calm herself, so can you. People will hurt you and destroy you and make you feel things you’ve never felt and in those moments you will understand why storms are named after people, but going to the beach, watching the ocean and the sand, the air and the sun, be calm, you’ll realize that the beach is the closest thing we have to heaven.