Water of Time

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The moment you jump into ice cold water is shocking. The way you feel after hitting the barrier, it's as if you know its coming but in reality you don't know exactly how it's going to feel. You first feel the water, as if that will help your body adjust to what is going to happen. Then you back up, forcing your body to completely detach from the cool liquid. You brace yourself to jump.

Your body tenses up, your eyes squeeze shut, and your heart races; knowing what you are about to do is going to sting. Then you relax, your heart beat slows, your eyes roll back, and you jump.

As you freefall into the air, your body not touching anything, your mind is caught in a state between relief and anticipation; time almost stops as such. Then out of nowhere, as if you didn't know it was coming, your body meets the chilling water. At first your body enters a feeling of electric shock, shutting down almost everything.

Then it goes into a feeling of relief that you are still alive. Then once again everything stops. You body is completely consumed by a unique chill. You open your eyes slowly, knowing not where you are. All that surrounds is a blurry blue. For miles and miles you see nothing. No movement, no life; it's as if you are covered in a blue blanket, hiding from someone. But yet in this state you feel nothing but comfort. You look up and see a warm glow, shimmering through the blurry blockade. You stretch out for it, yet it moved further away. Soon enough it doesn't move. You could have sworn you touched it, but then all goes dark once again.

Your body emerges the surface and the night sky surrounds everything. The only light you see is the one of your small cabin in the distance. Swimming to the old dock, you pull yourself up, and ring the towel around your neck, not concerned with the fact that water still drips from your skin.

As you look back out on the moonlit water, you once again realize you dove in at dawn, and came out at dusk; feeling as if you merely jumped in once.