Several years back, I went on vacation to Mexico.
I was with my mother, but she doesn’t dive so I went by myself, along with other divers and local dive masters.
I sat on the boat silently as we waited to arrive at our dive point.
The local dive master stood in front of me as we were both at the front of the boat.
He stood, head high with his arms crossed.
I was looking at the water.
“Don’t be afraid,” he calmly said to me.
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Amidst my silence, he saw right through my cloak of defence… No one else in the boat seems to have noticed… Or maybe, no one else in the boat knew how to speak of things that people like to hide from others as well as ourselves.
