Do you know anyone who, if ze had the means and choice, wouldn't want to live by the ocean? Or sea?
If your life could remain mostly the same but for geography-- even your job and loved ones would re-locate near to you-- of course you would live near the sea. This isn't a question; it's the great secret of humanity.
We all want to live by the ocean.
We want a view of the ocean every morning and evening.
We want the option of walking to it when there's a little extra time in the day.
We want to stand near it to realize simultaneously that we are small and that we are significant. That our bodies are made up of this stuff and that our souls-- well, of something completely different. We want to be reminded that a steady rhythm lies under the beastly chaos that rushes up to our bodies.
We want to know a horizon.
Mountains are important, and so are deserts, and many other geographical formations-- but I am not willing to accept others' claims of bias here: it's objectively true that we'd all live near the sea.
Ask (or, I'm asking now). Find me someone for whom this is not the case.
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