The Sea

There is a sea, it's called the sea of life. It's a salty and treacherous sea, much more dangerous than any other. This body of water is filled with many terrifying creatures like depression, anxiety, and many many more. They're dark and gloomy things that feed off of the sailors and their ships. These creatures are just as dangerous as the sea they live in.

Your mind is a sailor and your body is a ship, a large ship that sails this sea. All you're trying to do is find land. However, it isn't that simple. The creatures of the sea will notice the presence of your ship. Slowly they will get to your ship. When they get to it they will begin tearing it apart in an attempt to get to you, taking pieces of your ship down into the depths of the sea never to be seen again.

You will put up a fight, desperately attempting to free your ship from their hungry grasps. Whether you succeed in your attempts or not you will be missing pieces of your ship, causing it to sink the slightest bit every now and then. This will leave you with two choices.

One: Maybe you flourished during your battle. Maybe you won, fought off the creatures. Everything will have been for something. You can now continue your journey, but beware for there are more creatures in the sea that you have yet to meet. You will sail around all the bad weather, only being in clear skies. Eventually you will see land. Yes my friend, land.

Nevertheless, the closer you get, the more cautious you become because the sea has shown you that every time you see a single ray of sunshine it can be washed out by loud, black clouds with goals of torture and pain.

This time there is no need to worry, for you have anchored and set foot on land. Others are there awaiting your arrival. They ask you of your voyage and you tell them all your struggles and they listen with their understanding ears, them having gone through similar conflicts. After listening to your tales of the sea they ask how you are. Your mind flashes back to all the ships you'd seen sink and all the ghastly faces of the creatures you had encountered. Quickly you are pulled from those thoughts because you have the realization they you are finally on land and no longer need to be fearful of those creatures, for they live in the dark sea which now you are far far away from. You finally answer their inquiry with a positive response knowing that you are now safe and you can be happy. You won your fight, all the effort was worth it. You fought the most relentless enemy and the only reminders of that are a few scars, but who cares because guess what? You won, you got through the sea.

Two: Your exertions may not have been enough. "All you've got," may not have been enough for you. You begin to let the creatures take whatever is left of your ship. Despite your best efforts you've decided it is far too much and you no longer can battle them for you are too weak. Now all you can do is watch as each and every one of the creatures pulls every last piece of your sole ship to the bottom of the ocean with no intentions of returning.

Don't worry friend, no point in screaming and crying, everything will be gone soon and it will all be over. Your ship's pieces will disappear, and so will you. Everything you've done whilst sailing through this cruel and idiotic sea will have been for nothing, all the time spent on things will have been useless. Even if you had a few happy times with the other sailors in the sea it wont matter because in the end nothing is fair and nothing ever goes your way, or so you say. But don't fret, for it is now over, you've lost your toughest battle. You may sink deep into the ocean with your last thought being that the attack was from your greatest enemy, life.