Water

Water…H2O, white solid or almost colorless, transparent, with a slight hint of blue or crystalline solid or liquid. It is so volatile and transparent. It has no taste or smell. Everyday you see it as a liquid a solid or vapor: three phases. Water is so different from other substances. How can you say it is beautiful? No, water is the most common molecule on earth, it isn’t beautiful, it is just common.

Really beauty comes with rarity. You can even argue that we are made, between 55 and 78%, of water and that humans are beautiful. Yes you are beautiful, but it is not the water in you that makes you beautiful my dear. It is the association of all molecules and elements. The other 45 to 22% are responsible for the beauty in you and what made me fell in love.

Did you notice how water is volatile? It freezes in your fridge; it evaporates with just a focus of the sun. And it goes on and on in those cycles that you have learned when you were a child back in school: rain, rivers, sea, evaporation, clouds, rain,….

Water does not stop. Water is here for some time, but then it just goes away. You need it, it is a fact, but everything has water in it. You don’t need it directly, you can just eat oranges, pineapples, carrots or even potatoes and get the water from there. Sometimes it feels good, especially after running or when you are thirsty, but isn’t a coke, or a juice better? Of course it is.

It feels good when you are taking a shower or when you are washing your hands not because it is water, but because it is warm and comforting as any other fluid at 40ºC and it cleans all the dirtiness in you. You’d rather take a bath on perfume or milk don’t you? At least I do.

You know? I am talking but many time ago someone who I cared a lot about told me I was water: too much ethereal. And I know that. I am inconstant, imprecise, inaccurate and vague. And how can you trust in somebody like me? Well I ask you, how can you trust in water by swimming on it or laying on your back in an ocean full of water? Water kills, nevertheless you trust it, so why don’t trust me? I never killed someone did I?

But back to water I made a quiz to see if I really was water. Well here is the result: “Your element is Night. You are mysterious and intense. You despise sunlight, and thrive in darkness. You have a little evil inside you. You control the darkness.”

At first I laughed, of course it is just a little pretentious and omnipotent to think that we can be compared to an element and quizzes, well they are just right as a 3 year old talking about math, but it has some truth in it. I prefer the night to day, I am more productive at night and everyone says that I am very intense playing sports, writing or playing an instrument. At the same time they tell me I am mysterious because I really don’t open myself a lot to other persons.

But yes. Water is like night. And assuming that more than 90 % of water is in the shadows and very deep where the sun doesn’t reach we can associate a lot both water and night.

Concluding, I don’t trust water, it’s sneaky. A rogue. Just like the night. Night is not a good counselor neither is water. So I will always treat water with great deference and respect as it deserves, but never as a friend. You have two possibilities: you love water or you hate water. That's simple.