A Shark in the ocean

When I was in school we had a class called ‘Moral Science’, I really liked that class. First because it didn’t involve any rigorous brain work and second just the nature of that class was very peaceful and creative.

I remember one of the class in which my teacher told us to write one element of nature that resonates you the most.

As soon as the question ended, its answer flashed in my mind and without wasting a second I wrote down: Ocean.

That was then, and today I am still in love the deep blue water holding so much within. For me ocean signified deept of personality, all the different kinds of creature it holds symbolizes knowledge about varied subjects.

 
To reach the deepest part of it is always a struggle, but in the end it’s a whole new world of complete bliss (of course I have no idea since I can swim only in 5ft of water, but it feels like so). Ocean always felt like a home.

Almost 7 years later me and my friends gathered in our dingy kitchen to find out about our spirit animal. I was laying on the kitchen floor with candles burning around me connecting myself to the earth and the sky, breathing in the divine light to connect with my higher self.

I walked in the forest where I was guided by my friend’s voice. Soon her voice began to fade away and I visualized me walking down a pathway surrounded by huge trees, green and wet as if it had just rained. I walked deeper and deeper and I saw a stone right in the middle of the clearing.

I sat for a while expecting a cat to come and greet me, I presumed that my spirit animal is a cat. But as I called for my spirit animal, the image of the rainforest disappeared.

I was in middle of the ocean, deep blue and clear. Far above I could see the sun shining. And then….

Swimming towards me was a great white shark. Not scary like Jaws but kind and happy-go-lucky, like laughing on some inside joke. We had a little conversation –

Me: you are not a cat.

Shark: do I look like a cat?

I laughed loudly and woke up from my trance surprising my friends. I knew he was my spirit animal just by that one sarcastic reply. And as my friend read the characteristic of a shark totem a relief swept over me, I have found my spirit animal.

Throughout the evening I had a constant connection with my spirit animal. I was in ocean and the ocean was in me.