Rennara
04-17-2015, 04:30 AM
Hello,
I am new to the community and, indeed, fairly new to the concept of a Mer community. I feel like I have so much to learn about everyone and everything and I couldn't be more excited to meet any of you. I will admit, I was hesitant to join after reading several comments about how some mer-folk wish that the community wasn't growing and how others have brought trouble and drama to your community. I don't want to be one of those. Please, if I am ever incorrect in how I refer to anyone or anything, please let me know (as said, I have much to learn).
I feel excited to know that there are others, but also anxious. Like any close community, there are social norms I have no idea about(for example, I identify more with seals than fish, are selkies accepted in a mer-commuity?) There are others who don't want to accept outsiders, which at this point, I am. This community is a family for some of you, and I don't want to intrude... but I want oh so badly to be a part of it.
That aside, I can't believe there has been a community of people who feel a deeper connection to mermaids and I never knew about it. I have always felt a more at home, and more complete when I am in a body of water than on land. I've dreamed of being a mermaid since childhood. Dreamed of swimming through kelp beds and under glaciers. The sea has always felt like home and I'm really quite relived to know that I'm not alone. I've gone through life feeling unworthy of wanting to be a mermaid because I am not the "right shape." In recent years I've learned to ignore what the world says I should be and follow my own heart. When I am in the water, I'm where I belong and I feel beautiful and free. So here I am.
I hope to get to know you and your world... our world.
-Rennara
I am new to the community and, indeed, fairly new to the concept of a Mer community. I feel like I have so much to learn about everyone and everything and I couldn't be more excited to meet any of you. I will admit, I was hesitant to join after reading several comments about how some mer-folk wish that the community wasn't growing and how others have brought trouble and drama to your community. I don't want to be one of those. Please, if I am ever incorrect in how I refer to anyone or anything, please let me know (as said, I have much to learn).
I feel excited to know that there are others, but also anxious. Like any close community, there are social norms I have no idea about(for example, I identify more with seals than fish, are selkies accepted in a mer-commuity?) There are others who don't want to accept outsiders, which at this point, I am. This community is a family for some of you, and I don't want to intrude... but I want oh so badly to be a part of it.
That aside, I can't believe there has been a community of people who feel a deeper connection to mermaids and I never knew about it. I have always felt a more at home, and more complete when I am in a body of water than on land. I've dreamed of being a mermaid since childhood. Dreamed of swimming through kelp beds and under glaciers. The sea has always felt like home and I'm really quite relived to know that I'm not alone. I've gone through life feeling unworthy of wanting to be a mermaid because I am not the "right shape." In recent years I've learned to ignore what the world says I should be and follow my own heart. When I am in the water, I'm where I belong and I feel beautiful and free. So here I am.
I hope to get to know you and your world... our world.
-Rennara