How I Faced My Fears From Water? Sea Life at Helsinki, Spring 2017 by Endija

How the title already tells you, I am scared of water all my life. Going to Helsinki to Sea Life was a big challenge for me. Even knowing that there wont be that much water and I can not touch it, it still felt too scary. I should say it was a big step for me to make but I did it!

My fear from water and sea are so big that my mind stops working, I do not hear anything around me and even the breathing is really hard. I can not move or answer to questions or walk back. It is how it feels like for me. I am too scared.

If from the beginning there would not be introduction( If I can call it like that) where fish and other sea life was split into parts, I probably would not faced my fears.
That really helped me to get more excited and forget about the fears I have.
It has been a big deal for me all my life. When I was little I was not enjoying bath because of my fears! I have always liked water and sea life in general, how colorful, interesting and great it can be, it always fascinated me. But I knew it is not and would not be possible for me to explore that. But then I had this chance. I basically was under the water but I couldnt feel it and my dream came true.

Also I should mention that I was there with my best friend what helped me a lot too.
My experience there was great, people who worked there were really nice and they answered to all my questions, (they were a lot). I was walking around there more then one hour, more then you probably would spend there. Have to be honest and say that the only minus there was dirty glass. It is not like I could not understand that but taking pictures there was a real task to do. Still have some.

From artists side I should say with happiness that it was a huge inspiration and I understood from where "Finding Dory" comes. And I found my Dory and Nemo there too!! The most interesting thing for me was inspiration that came from there and how much more I got interested into Traditional Animation. My favorite thing in the world! Since that day I have drawn and designed a pretty large number of my own characters and some day they will be featured in my own book.

There were some old and angry fishes who I thought were looking at me and thinking: " Another tourist searching for happiness while I am here".
But it is great chance to see sea life especially if you are scared from water as I am or if we talk from financial side it is cheaper too then to go under the water deep enough to see all of this! And after seeing all that will be alive. :D
Did I mentioned that fishes you will see there will remind you of those from a cartoon? Or that you will see so many interesting fishes and other animals who will make you feel at some point a bit confused too because of their reaction? Yes, with their, I really mean fish reaction,when you will look at them as close as you can, some of them will proudly ignore you but some will be scared or will come to you so close that you will feel like they will come out and go with you home?

Now, after a year I can say I could go back there, but I am still full of fears from water. Being scared from such a usual thing in life it is scary too. I know some people in real life who never will tell you that they are scared from water and/or can not swim. But I always say that we all have fears from every day usual things like even spiders or knifes or just other people without understanding why. Of course now when I have grown up I can go to bath normally, but sometimes I am still feeling that weird scary way. For me it was a great experience, I saw how sea life looks and till this day it warms my heart.

Thank you for reading! Hope you enjoyed and maybe will visit Sea Life on your own too! Thank you so much for taking your time in your busy daily schedule and reading this and in that way supporting me and what I am doing! Hope you have a great day so far!
With love,
Endija