Men are the Ocean, Women are the Mountains

So this past week I went to Charleston on Thursday, and then camping in the mountains on Sunday. I'm never at both the ocean and the mountains within the same week, so, this unique time brought some preservative.

To me, the mountains are my favorite. They are just downright beautiful, but much more than that, they're so deep in their complexity and mystery. There are just so many trails you can take, and creeks and waterfalls and ridges to explore and figure out, that its truly hard to get your head around the layout of a ridge. You can go to a given area of the mountains year after year after year and still find out new things that you never knew before. So, to me, women are like the mountains. They're very open with their complexity and mystery, their beauty is apparent, but to get to know them its quite a hike. This may be why many guys like the mountains, they like the challenge, the unending mystery and beauty. It's all just very apparent when you look at the mountain, what you're really getting yourself into. To some its worth it, to some it isn't. I really don't know relationships well, but, I feel like a guy trying to figure out a girl is somewhat like it. Really getting to grasp the terrain, where the creek flows, how to scale the ridge, and just all of the depth and beauty of what it holds while walking the path, would be like figuring out a woman. When you're walking the trail, you usually can't see the top except for glimpses here and there, so, its quite an adventure to the top. And once you get there, you realize you just scratched the surface of everything it holds.

Men are like the oceans. When you look out at the water, you see the calm and quiet of a flat and endless plain. It would appear that there was no complexity or diversity to it, just flatness and rolling waves, a steady, reliable, sound and sun, peaceful. This might be why women like the ocean, its beauty and simplicity. However, this simplicity is just the surface, the ocean is DEEP. So deep. So much diversity, valleys & plains, cannons, and hills, reefs and icebergs, and of course mountains. Oh yes, men have mountains too, except they're not beautiful, they're under miles of water, no sunlight can get to them, its just quiet and cold and muddy mountains, no life. Men don't like to talk about their mountains, its usually regret or hidden sins from the past, plunged away beneath the deep. Women have an even greater challenge to explore these waters, and I wonder if many would want to go there. You really have to want to go there to figure it out, you need a freakin submarine or at least sonar! It may seem more daunting of a task that one would want, but, they're down there ready for exploration when the time is right. You may want to hang out at the surface taking in the sun, and that's all good and fun, and should be done. But, the ocean is beautiful, and complex, and full of life, much more than the calm. Or the not so calm, aka hurricanes, pissed off guys, haha, seriously, just let the storm die down before you go back.

Well, this isn't to say that women don't have regret or anything, I just don't have anything to compare it too, cause I haven't figured it out. Still working on figuring out women, but, at some point you've just got to embrace the mystery for the time being. It's gravy baby.

Ok, just two fun facts:
-There are underwater mountains that surpass Mt. Everest in terms of their height. The highest mountain in the world makes up the base of Guam. Also, an island in Hawaii is higher than Everst.
-The deepest spot in the ocean has only been visited by 2 people, its 6.78 miles deep! More people have been to the moon (12) than to the Mariana Trench, that's how hard it is to get down there! They say if you dropped a cannon ball from a boat above the trench, it would take 64 minutes to reach the bottom!