Sofie Lundberg
presenting:
When the sky turns
blue
Preface
Dear
reader.
This is
a story that is going to reveal my personal point of view when it comes to the
story about how - what we know as - the Earth was born. This is a story about
my version of God. I have what so ever no intent of affecting your religious
beliefs, so please do me the extraordinary honour of respecting mine in return.
Enjoy.
When the sky turns blue
Once upon a time there was a planet. A planet much mightier than
the ones anyone of us has ever been aware about. On this planet all the races
were bound together as one by the fenomenon of love, dreams and destiny.
If you
only loved one person and loved your beloved deeply, you could be certain that
you and the owner of yor heart would be given everything that is said to come
with a marvelous relationship. If you had but one dream and the dream of yours
was grand enough, you could be certain that it would eventually come true. And
if you believed in destiny and that you simply had been given a single of your
own, you could be certain that your destiny would form the canvas that by time
would be covered by the colours of your life.
On the planet lived a sailor. A sailor who had sailed
at the seven seas, seen all the creatures of the ocean and fought with all of
the most horrifying leviathans you could ever imagine. He knew everything there
was to know about the blue, liquid mass and he had done every single expedition
he had ever dreamt about doing. Though, he had never thought that his passion
for the sea would fade, but the longer he had traveled during the years and the
more distant his destinations had become, the weaker his inner glow had burned.
You see, he had always felt like he’d been searching for something... But now
when he’d seen everything there was to see... He couldn't remember for what
reason he’d started his search in the very dawn of his journey, neither could he
understand what he had accomplished by it, as he in this very moment felt like
he'd reached the dusk of his bizarre and lonely – and in some ways miserable - life.
By then
he knew he needed a new adventure to cheer him up, something different from all
the things he had ever experienced before. He needed love, or at least someone
to socialize with, and was there by ready to settle down and start a family.
And so he decided to leave his moisty life
behind him and finally return back to his original element - The earth. As the
experienced sailor he was, he counted that the return home would take 30 days.
During the first ten days of his trip he wondered
about his decision. Why had he left the earth to live on the waves in the first
place? Would he really be able to leave the sea - the immense blue that for
such a long time had been called home - behind him? Hadn’t all the expeditions he’d
done allways been the dream of his life? One thing was certain; all he wished
for now was a child to hold in his arms and a beautiful and caring wife to
build a home together with. But would he regret the decision to let anyone steal
his solitude? And the familiar sound of the waves, the wind and weather
caressing his face, what if they didn’t like it? Would he be able to sacrifice
the sea for the love that comes with a family?
And so,
as if someone had read his mind, there she was.
Seated
on the rough surface of a rock, letting the fish scale on her fin glisten and
sparkle in the sunlight, discretely reflecting light rays of red around itself
- sat a mermaid.
The
sailor acted as if faint heart never won fair lady, grabbed the helm and
changed the ship’s course to starboard. It was now headed towards the
astonishing woman, who obviously was an amazing crossbreed.
“Ohoy
there!” shouted the sailor to the mermaid. “Would you do me the favour of letting
me now what a beautiful woman like you are doing up here above the surface?”
The ship
had slowed down and eventually stopped in front of the gorgeous hybrid which
now had turned her face against the sailor. She let her fingers run through her
barely lank, blond hair as she with a sad tune in her voice spoke to him.
“Oh no
sailor, don’t come any closer to me. I don’t want this to affect both of us.
I’m not sun-bathing you see, or I guess I am, but it’s not on purpose. No... I
think I got a curse. I think that I lastly have gotten stuck between everything
I’ve ever wished for and all I ever would have needed.”
The
sailor didn't quite understand her anymore. But her words had reminded him of what
his father ones had told him, back in the time when he’d left his family to
explore the ocean and full fill what ones had been his dreams. “My son, why
are you leaving us when all you could ever need is to be found here? Harvests,
crops, a stabil cottage and people who are nice to you - what else could a man
dream of in this world?” his father had asked him. He hadn’t been able to
answer him in a way that made his choice seem obvious then, and nither would
his answer have made anymore sense today, he thought. Anyway, he managed to
convince his father that it had been his dream back then, and then he left.
He
could see now that it had been something more than just a dream though, and he
didn’t feel satisfied in the way a man should be when living his life long dream.
Instead he had for as long as he could remember felt like the sea had called
him. That it wanted to show him something. It hadn’t been a difficult choice to
make that day when he decided to leave, because there had never been anything
like a choice. He just had to go, he was destined to it.
And
standing here - looking at the sea-bound creature with her feelings that
reminded him of his owns - he realized what had been draging him here for such
a long time.
They
looked at each other for a moment of silence and they let a knowledge sink in.
Their eyes spoked to the other pair and hundreds of stories flickered and was
exchanged between them without anyone of them having to say anything at all
really. Just like the birds always know they’re at the right place as they fly
to warmer countries - They just knew. They wouldn’t spend their lifes alone
anymore.
Then the
sailor remembered what the mermaid had told him right before the enlightment had
strucked them: Curse. She had spooked of a curse. He cleared his throat to
break the silence betweeen them and asked:
“What do
you mean by saying you think you’re stuck between everything you’ve ever wished
for and everything you ever would have needed? What about that curse?”
The
mermaid stared at him at first, judging whether to tell him or not, then she crawled
down to edge of the rock and dipped her fin slowly into the water. The water
started to boil around it and she quickly removed the fin and shook it hard to
get rid of the heat. The sailor was shocked but at the same time he looked
fascinated at her as she proceeded with her explaination.
“I don’t
now why it’s rejecting me like this, it never has before. But I have to admit
that I’ve suspected my actions would catch up on me some day. You see, I never
liked the idea of always nowing what’s coming for you and never having to
strive for something – all that stuff about destiny and dreams you know. Ever
since I was a child I therefore haven’t allowed myself to have a dream nor
believe in destiny. I want to see where life takes me to instead and I want to
decide my destiny by myself. And now, because of my ignorant attitude or lack
of gratitude maybe, I assume that the sea has closed itself for me and that it
won't let me back in again before I’ve changed my mind. I suppose it tries to
force me into dreaming about being able to return, but truth be told, I don’t worship
my original element that much. Or at least I’m not ready to give up my commitment
yet. I never thought it was the right place for me anyway.”
Pause.
The sounds of the waves and a lonely flying seagull above them surronded them
and helped the sailor to absorb and make sense of her words. A way of thinking
that never would have estabished itself in his mind, if it wasn’t for the
mermaid, had now twisted his thoughts, and he slowly realised it would probably
linger in the back of his mind for an endless time.
Then she
continued to speak, but this time with a glimpse in her eyes.
“It was
great that you came by though. Otherwise I don’t now how I would have gotten
anywhere else then maybe the other side of this old rock. Come on now, help me
get on board capten.”
During the second ten days
of what now had become their trip, they got to know each other a little bit
better. They spooke about what they had experienced and what their families
were like, and they both enjoyed to have some company since none of them had
been exactly fed up with it earlier.
The
sailor told the mermaid that he didn’t even know if his family was still alive.
But he supposed that they wouldn’t be. Their planet was pretty cruel in that
way.
Like all of the sailor’s ancestors, the ones who truly believed in the
fenomenon of love, dreams and destiny - and coincidentally also were pretty good
at finding their right place in those kinds of things – they were taken away
from the planet pretty quick. The planet worked in a way that made all the ones
who had succeded in the three goals - and there by had no reason to stay
anymore - forbidden to enjoy their succes. When they’d reached the three goals there
were to accomlish at the planet, they simply disappeared to be found somewhere
elsewhere.
On the other hand, lost souls like himselve
and the mermaid - those who seemed unable to find what they wanted - had to
stay longer until they would finally pull themselves together and figure
something out to end their own stories, since that was the only thing left for
them to dream of. It was tragical, but what choice had they? It was just the
way the system worked.
When it
became the mermaid’s turn to talk about her childhood and family, she told the
sailor about the ache she’d felt in her heart everytime her parents and three
siblings had pushed her away from them whenever she’d tried to make a rapproachement
with them.
That too was a part of the injustice that
steched across their world and formed its evil accursed sphere; you could only
love one person. If you braved the limit, you would get punished through the
horrifying inability of no longer being able to neither love nor be loved ever
again. Her parents loved each other deeply, and that mad them unable to love
their children as well.
During the last ten days of their trip back to land,
the system of the planet began the transformation and adaptation of what until
then could have become a strangely remarkable couple. They had fallen in love
and - as the system worked - they would be given everything there was to have
in a marvelous relationship.
The mermaids fin grew into two legs and her
belly became round when a child now was coming to life inside of it.
All this was because of the sailor. Two of his
three goals in life had now been accomplished through the love between him and
the former mermaid and the dream of a wife and child to care for and hold in
his arms. He felt happier then he had ever done before, and then he hadn’t even
figured out his destiny yet...
The mermaid
who was the one carying the child was however furious. She didn’t care that
much about her fin deforming into a pair of legs, but she hated the thought of
having her child brought into this mad world. She was mad with the sailor and
still she couldn’t blame him, he hadn’t experienced the same extrem rejection from
his parents as she had. Furthermore her feelings for him hadn’t changed, she
still loved him. She layed her hands over her belly and sight.
“Poor
child, if there’s any way of preventing you from having to face the same harsh childhood that I had, and from you having to make a decision in the same choices in life as I have, I
swear I’ll do everything to... I mean I
know I can’t love both of you but...”
That’s when she realised that there might
actually be a way to solve it.
She ran off to speak to the captain and after
they spooked, they knew their destiny.
The water looked clear and shimered in turquoise beneath them as they
stood together, hand in hand, ready to jump from the gunwale to never return up
from the deep sea again.
The sailor
hadn’t been hard to persuade as he always had felt as he belonged to the ocean.
He also felt with his beloved in her consideration of the child. Besides, this
was her dream, wouldn’t he agree to do everything that would make it come true
after the sacrifice she’d done for him by carying his child?
They looked
at each other, studying the other persons face closely, memorizing every detail of the most beautiful thing they’d ever seen in their lives.
They didn’t
say anything, like before they didn’t have to. They already knew.
The
sailor gave her a kiss on the cheek and she squeezed his hand as to say “trust
me”.
And so they
jumped.
It splashed
when their bodies fell into the sea and they started to sink. Their hands were
still linked together as the water grew heavier around them. After a short
while they'd exhaled all of the remaining oxygen in their lungs and they raised
their other hands to use them to keep the other person from breathing in.
Both of them were close to the beautiful state
of unconciousness when they felt their bodies starting to melt together,
magically intertwine and become one. All bones, teeth and nails formed a
massive shell and all the muscles and other tissues took place at its inside.
Right
before the clam reached the bottom, the uterus of the former mermaid had been formed
into a small pearl which if you studdied more closely still contained their
child as well as a little piece of earth as a reminder of its father and a
small amount of water as a reminder of its mother.
The Earth was
born.
This had been the dream of the mermaid.
She wanted her child to grow up in a differnet
world then the one she’d lived in herselve. She didn’t want her life to be
taken away by the planet neither having to loose the sailor, and so she had
thought that this was the sulotion.
And it
certainly was.
She didn’t
quite realize it then, but she had created her own destiny and thereto a
wonderful world for her child to live in. A world where it could change its
dreams as many times as it wanted without having to live forever if it didn’t
decide, a world where it could create its one destiny without the world forcing
it in any direction, a world where it could fall in love as many times as it
wanted and be loved of a never ending number of others.
Simlpy just
a world ruled by its population, instead of its own autocratic, unfair and evil
self.
And just like a clam rolls its pearl to make it
grow and shine, the Earth is rolled by the mermaid and the sailor to improve
the condition of living for the humans and all other living species around it.
They are
good parents and will therefor keep their children safe from evil.
So
everytime the sky turns black you’ll know that it’s just because the Earth is
faced against the clam and is getting polished and well taken care of.
And everytime
you'll wake up and see the sky is turning blue again, you’ll know that the
world is a better place to live in then, than it has ever been before.
Peace.
