At first glance, this looks like a picture of some mountains. However, if you look closer, you'll see a weird shape in the upper right of the sky. That's because it's not the mountains you see, but their reflection in a pristine, clear, mountain lake. Flip your phone around and you'll see the actual mountains, their reflection in the water and the edge of the kayak in the bottom left. Amazing.
I Nearly Died Drowning. Here’s What it’s Like to Survive.
Maggie Slepian knew she shouldn’t have been on the water that day, but she wanted to keep up—she wanted to belong.
I knew then that I didn’t want my last few minutes to be full of sadness and regret. If I wasn’t going to survive this, I didn’t want my final thoughts to be berating myself for a bad choice.
It’s OK, I thought. You didn’t mean for this to happen. You are going to die and you should just be grateful for the time you had.
The heavy, black ache in my chest fully replaced the burn. I forced myself to keep my eyes open and watch the sunbeams like I’d seen a thousand times before, when I’d been underwater by choice and could come up for air when I wanted.
Tumblr added a feature called LikesPublic where one day a year, on a random date, everybody’s likes became public. I was on a kayaking trip and when I got back I checked Tumblr and my dash was exploding about weird shit in popular blogs’ likes. I was so mad I missed it that I screamed, “I missed LikesPub?” and then I woke up.
Sometimes, Mother Nature presents us with a gift. This encounter between a kayaker and a whale reminds us of the vast, beautiful world that thrives beneath the waves.