MerGrrl
02-19-2013, 07:41 PM
Hi all,
Longtime lurker here. Have learned so much about the lives of "real mermaids" on this forum, and on all your websites and FB pages.
I've been obsessed with mermaids ever since seeing Splash when I was 7. By the time I was a freshman in college, I realized that was still, deep down, what I truly wanted to be. Unfortunately, I was too "smart" to follow that dream, and now in my 30s, I find it's still just as prominent in my mind. I guess there's no swimming away from it.
Despite the years of yearning, I have yet to own or even try on a tail. I just got a monofin though, so I'm practicing.
As a total dork who actually ponders these things (I know you all can relate, and no offense to y'all), I don't think that mermaids "exist", at least not in the ways we tend to fantasize about them - what aquatic mammal has a flowy fish tail? - but for me, this is actually good news. To me, the fact that so many of us have such a deep, undying connection with the sea, the water, the idea of being aquatic beings means that there is indeed something real there. Call it the pull of the tides, the salinity of our blood, the currents of the womb, whatever. And it's more important now than ever before, with how much our oceans are suffering at the hands of man.
What this all means to me is that we ARE the real mermaids. If mermaids don't (or no longer) exist in the empirical sense, then we are them, as much as anyone can be. We can enhance our merside, by being shepherds of the ocean and its creatures, learning to capitalize on our body's aquatic propulsion mechanisms, holding our breath underwater, or even just connecting with "flow." With this in mind, I've started a FB page, How To Become A Mermaid, and a website, SirenizeMe.
My thanks and respect go to all the tailmakers, who make our dreams a tangible reality, and to the bold mers who've braved the waves of dissent to lead the movement out into open water.
Don't ever let the haters get you down.
Longtime lurker here. Have learned so much about the lives of "real mermaids" on this forum, and on all your websites and FB pages.
I've been obsessed with mermaids ever since seeing Splash when I was 7. By the time I was a freshman in college, I realized that was still, deep down, what I truly wanted to be. Unfortunately, I was too "smart" to follow that dream, and now in my 30s, I find it's still just as prominent in my mind. I guess there's no swimming away from it.
Despite the years of yearning, I have yet to own or even try on a tail. I just got a monofin though, so I'm practicing.
As a total dork who actually ponders these things (I know you all can relate, and no offense to y'all), I don't think that mermaids "exist", at least not in the ways we tend to fantasize about them - what aquatic mammal has a flowy fish tail? - but for me, this is actually good news. To me, the fact that so many of us have such a deep, undying connection with the sea, the water, the idea of being aquatic beings means that there is indeed something real there. Call it the pull of the tides, the salinity of our blood, the currents of the womb, whatever. And it's more important now than ever before, with how much our oceans are suffering at the hands of man.
What this all means to me is that we ARE the real mermaids. If mermaids don't (or no longer) exist in the empirical sense, then we are them, as much as anyone can be. We can enhance our merside, by being shepherds of the ocean and its creatures, learning to capitalize on our body's aquatic propulsion mechanisms, holding our breath underwater, or even just connecting with "flow." With this in mind, I've started a FB page, How To Become A Mermaid, and a website, SirenizeMe.
My thanks and respect go to all the tailmakers, who make our dreams a tangible reality, and to the bold mers who've braved the waves of dissent to lead the movement out into open water.
Don't ever let the haters get you down.