dive in.

bury yourself in this consuming sea of delusion.

submerge all that you are in the vast ocean of doubts and fears.

dive deep, kick hard, reach the ocean bed!

find that prominent pearl of pleasure, fulfill your biggest dreams.

and maybe, when you're there, you'll find the truth -

that this was not the truth.

it was all a lie, an elaborate decoy.

because, there you'll see,

sparkling hints of sunlight filtering through,

from above, where oxygen abides,

where life really is.

taken in tioman a few years back. (:

kinda like the unintentional classic effect,

in b&w, it might look like a shot from the '80s or older.

just the kind of timeless shot that one would expect to see now.

of course, when i mean timeless, i'm really not saying its a masterpiece. (like the real classics) i actually mean that it was just a careless snapshot that wasnt much, until it was viewed through the lens of retrospective nostalgia. and then, its rating got better as i got older. still cant place my finger on exactly why i like this photo, maybe i'll figure it out 5 years down the road when i'm a quarter of a century old.