save a whale

swimming in calm waters is always relaxing. the waters are warm and tropical. once underwater everything is crystal clear. you are swimming with marine life and they seem to be enjoying your company

you've heard many stories of people drowning in water, people getting attacked by sharks and even large populations of people on ships capsizing and losing their lives.

but when you decided to enter that water, it was calm. the sun was up and it was just a warm breezy summer day

the clouds started rolling in and it got darker but you remained calm. you see other swimmers getting out of the water and packing up. but you choose to ignore those people, and ignore the obvious signs that there was a storm a brewin

the clouds are really dark, they look like dirty wool that has been soaked in water and its just starting to sprinkle

this whole time you think to yourself that it is a false alarm. many of the times you got out of the water nothing ended up happening so you decide to stick around and wait it out

suddenly the water you are in feels ice cold and all of the friendly marine life has evacuated your surrounding. you are now left alone in this murky, icy and choppy water, but you decide to do nothing

you now realize you are too far from land to swim back, and as you attempt to swim to shore it starts to rain heavily. thunder cracks and explodes the atmosphere around you, and lighting illuminates the entire sky above

you start to panic and you are trying to swim to safety but the rip current is bringing you in

and this is when you realized: you saw the warnings, you knew this was going to happen, but you had too much trust in yourself and in the weather when you should have remained cautious.

you are getting tired of swimming, and you are losing sense of direction. you begin to lose hope.

at that very moment you stop swimming your head goes under the surface. you close your eyes and welcome the sweet release of hypothermia when it happens

your feet touch the ground and you open your eyes. you see you are at the shore and when your head comes above water all you see is someone standing there, you also notice the water is warm again and the sky is blue. the storm must have turned off like a light switch

someone that didnt seem to notice the storm is wearing a smile. and the moment your eyes meet you forget that you almost became worm food