Sarah

I freaking love cold water.  It’s exhilarating, elateing, electric: the cold water makes me want to laugh uproariously, hug my friends tightly, and tell them how much I love them a hundred times over.  I want to hold hands and I want the bass to be pumpin’.  

But when I look a little deeper, it’s because that in the cold water, artifice washed away, I have discovered something surprising.  It’s here that I have learned how to be comfortable with feeling uncomfortable; here my most honest self is exposed and unprotected by dressings and armor.  And like a plain gray rock that is broken open to reveal glittering gems within, surprisingly, in the cold water I have found immense joy, empathy, resilience, laughter, tears, deep connection, magic, love.  In the cold water there isn’t space for anything but truth.  In the cold water, brought together by our honestly, I found my heart friends, and it might be the cold water’s greatest gift.