Friends, if you choose to speak or write, may I offer a bit of advice? Do not strive to craft your words, art, and truths into luxurious cruise liners capable of carrying a vast number towards boisterous and self-forgetting entertainment. Instead, create as if you were building a simple, unadorned lifeboat destined to be discreetly stowed on such ships. While your creation may still share part or all of that festive journey, remember that its purpose is not the same as the larger vessel's. Despite its small size and spartan accommodations, a well-made lifeboat (or perhaps a life lesson) will be cherished far more by those it serves and saves than the more immediately celebrated behemoths.
In truth, we are all in the midst of a vast sea. The danger of luxury liners (and the rest of their ilk) lies in their relentless effort to convince you to forget this fact. Such forgetfulness greatly appeals to our baser instincts, and as we are persuaded to disregard the true depth of this world and our reality within it, we ultimately only lower ourselves. Witness as the comfortably bored begin to jump overboard! May they soon dry themselves in the lifeboats that find them, just as the immensity of the world's water seems now so dangerously within reach.
Oh, glory to sturdy, dependable lifeboats that allow us the luxury of engaging with the depths through thought alone! By contemplating the seemingly bottomless, we learn best how to steadfastly remain above it all!