𝙻𝚎𝚗𝚊 𝙳𝚊𝚛𝚔𝚕𝚢

Drink more water

One day, sitting alone in a forest, I discovered I was bleeding. Funny, I thought. I hadn’t seen my own blood in years. This is new. This is familiar. I feel a microcosm of sensations all simultaneously. It occurs to me in this breathless moment that I am something remarkable. I am human. I am a sack of liquid living on a floating rock of water. This is incredible, I thought to myself. How, how can I make this discover even better, I wondered. The blood. What is the blood made from? Water. What grows these trees around me? Water. What is the sweat on my skin? Water. What are these clouds in the sky? Water. *dramatic gasp* What if we, collectively, took part in this beautiful realization together? What if I could bring people along into my discover? I am human, and so are you, and what we need most of all is: water! So I took it upon myself to set out into the big bright world, brave and emboldened, to tell the people to hydrate. I knew they’d forget so I would simply persist, I’d remind them daily. It would be fun. They’d laugh. I’d laugh. We’d make a game of it and everyone would come out more hydrated at the end. …or… I just kept getting headaches from dehydration and it started as my way of reminding myself. One of those.