Vertigo

Sometimes was enough to be again the girl who was afraid of the water but wanted to be a mermaid. She walked slowly to the seashore and closed her eyes tightly. She waited patiently for the sea bite. After a few minutes without feeling it, she opened the right eye and checked that the water was still some meters far from her little body.

Then, she took a tiny step and closed her eyes tightly again. Her toes scratched the sand eagerly. As she wasn´t feeling the sea lick, the girl opened the right eye and checked that the water was still some meters far from her little body. She took one more tiny step and repeated the process no more than three times.

Tired of just receiving the ocean sound threat, the girl breathed deeply before screaming with all her might and running wildly towards the waves. She spent so much time soaking that, when going out, she was thinking that was turning into her grandmother considering her wrinkled hands.

She still sometimes played to be that girl who was scared of the water and achieved diving as a mermaid. Despite living a hundred kilometers far from the ocean.