Once Upon a Time

Ale (USA)

My writing experiment:

Once upon a time... below the surface of the water, everything was calm, stable.. predictable. The light water was on the light side, the heavy water below in the deepest part of the sea. Everyone thought there was order. Things like energy and sound travel with ease across the water, covering distances and depths well known by all fish and water. All living things knew were to find food and how to find each other. All non-living things (heat, salt, rocks, nutrients) knew where to be and how to relate to each other. But something was odd; there was so much staleness in the community that it was not good. Food was eaten up, how would it be replenish? Night would come, and how would warmth from above get below? How will sound and energy travel faster and further to new seas? We humans saw this and pondered how this would affect them as well. But the world is wise and old, and it has seen this before. The seasons change, and strong winds come along. The energy increased, and chaos started in the quiet layers on the surface, destabilizing the delicate balance of the area. Deeper water came hurling up, pulled by an invisible need for stability, mixing and changing through its path. Salty water mixed with fresh water and cold water mixed with warm water created new layers and renovated nutrients. Just like cold milk poured into hot coffee, strings, and eddies formed all around. Sound and energy now needed to transverse all these new structures, across the unknown mazed of temperature and salinity that the ocean has become. Humans saw this in amazement. “How do we explain this!” they asked themselves “what is this! will it ever go back to balance?“. The world has it secrets but it follows a natural law, quite simple really, so simple is hard for humans to understand. So they make up new languages such as math and physics to translate what they see into human language, with the hopes they can predict these changes and prepare for what is to come.