The element of water
How to submerge & emerge. Your first medium, although not the one you'll live in most of the time.
My dear love,
I have been trying to write you another letter with further clarifications about the world. It’s hard to prioritize which order is the right one for a new human to better comprehend the world. So I’m trying my best to go with my gut and intuition, concepts we will explore in the future.
I wanted to tell you about the first environment you met. The first medium you lived in. Water. An aquatic life is what you experienced for approximately 40 weeks.
The amniotic fluid is the protective liquid contained by the amniotic sac of a gravid amniote. This fluid serves as a cushion for the growing fetus, but also serves to facilitate the exchange of nutrients, water, and biochemical products between mother and fetus.
That’s what your first home felt like: pure Liquid. And liquids are wet. Water is a liquid, therefore water is wet. You’ll learn to distinguish wet from dry, don’t worry.
Wet is one of the properties of water. And water is the main component of any aquatic medium. Like the one you emerged from. So far so good, right? Let’s keep going…