We didn't need the water, but we just built that good god dam

"There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says 'Morning, boys. How's the water?' And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes 'What the hell is water?'" - david foster wallace

We ignore the obvious everyday. We can see the details, the minute insignificant details of our everyday life, but we refuse to see the big picture. I remember where I parked and I remember what I have to do and I remember the lyrics to songs, but I always seem to overlook what we are all swimming in. The most obvious unavoidable things always seem to be the hardest thing not only to talk about, but to think about. Ive always ignored them shrugged it off I never questioned the water, I never even realized it was there. This weekend however someone asked me about the water and I just then realized it existed. The water is real the water is relevant and I need to question the waters presence I need to question its power over me and how confined I really am to it. Maybe I am not a fish at all, this whole time I thought I was, and come to find out i am an amphibian and this water means nothing to me, or not as much as it would being a fish. You see I would never be able to figure such things out if I never realized and considered the waters existence and purpose