Bar keep, another Mekong, please.

Water.

I don't know what it is about vast quantities of water, but it's very calming to me. It soothes my soul, refreshes me spirit. Maybe it's because I was born in Minnesota and was around water all the time, or maybe it's because I'm thirsty a lot, or maybe it's because you don't need to speak to feel like it understands you... but water comforts me. It allows me to reflect. It helps me. Over spring break, it was the ocean that allowed me to purge myself of everything that was bothering me and give me a fresher start. Tonight, it was Lake Mary.

It gets to a point where I feel like I'm full on an emotional level, like anything else I start to feel ends up somewhere and I never actually feel it, I get stuck. Usually, and unfortunately, I get stuck in a not so great emotional state, and the good emotions I should be feeling are those that are pushed to the side, that I become blinded to. At this point, I stop being me. I look the same, I smell the same, I even relatively act the same... but inside, I don't feel the same. I feel like I need to hit an emotional reset button on my life and start again.

It turns out water is my emotional reset.

Just being able to look out into a vast environment of peace, a place without skyscrapers, without subways... without people. It allows me to let go of those things that accumulate in my mind like dust accumulating in an Ionic Breeze Quadra. All of the things that have been bothering me over the last couple of months have been dragged to the external hard drive for safe keeping, so I can reflect on and remember them without having to worry about running out of disk space. I'm still the same person, same morals, same values, same likes and dislikes... and now, inside, I feel the same again.

So, thank you Lake Mary. And if anyone reading this is having problems dealing with any sort of emotional stress, my only suggestion would be... find your water.