The Greatest Gift

The bright-golden sun glows over a watery blanket. On the top of the watery blanket is a large, steel-wooden, ship-boat; it is called a ship-boat because it's half boat and half ship. From a bird eye view, you see a figure standing on top of the ship-boat.As you zoom closer,you start to see the outline of the figure. Zooming closer, you see a tall, tan, muscular man with raven-color hair and ocean blue eyes, standing on the ship-boat.The man walks around the deck to make sure everything is intact, once he is done, he looks out onto the sea.The man been sailing since he was 10 with father.When he turned 17, his father died and left him the ship-boat,but he always remembers what his father said.

"Son, the sea is place where you lose your worries and stresses when you're on it".

His father is right with his statement because everytime he goes out on the sea, he forgets his worries and stresses, but he knows there more to being on the sea. He just doesn't know what it is. That is why the man comes to the sea again; in order to answer what puzzles him each day, when he wakes up. As the man looks out to sea, he remembers what the sea was to his father.

"Son, when you're on the sea, it feels like your floating on a fluffy blue cloud."

The man also agrees with that statement made by his father. He laughs at that memory and how his father would act like he was on a cloud. The man always loved how his father told him what the sea was to him. As he continues looking out at the bright-orange horizon, he notices a dense dark cumulus cloud.His father always said.

"Son, when you're on the sea, never doubt its calmness because it's like a football game, you never know when it can change."

With his father's words in mind, he begins to prepare for the storm, like a country preparing for war. He made sure that everything is tie down, that could be blown off the ship-boat. Just as the man finish tieing down everything, there is a loud roaringsound. He sees a bright flash of light from the sky and feels the wind blowing through his raven-color hair; it's cold when it hits him on the face. Suddenly, there is a pounding on the ship-boat's deck and, then he feels ice-cold prickles hitting his warm face; he runs into the cabin to wait for the rain to cease.

When the rain finally cease, the man walks out of the cabin. As he walks around the deck, he remembers what his father said.

"When you're on the sea always look up at the sky after a storm; you will see the most beautiful sight ever."

The man looks up at the sky and sees a beautiful rainbow.The rainbow has all different colors, but it is not the rainbow that awes him, it's the sky behind the rainbow. The sky behind the rainbow looks like a piece of heaven, opened to make sailors love the sea even more. The sky causes him to be overjoy with emotions, tears running down his face and he wipes them off. As he continues to examine the deck for damages, he struggles to keep tears from forming.

When nightfall came, the man is laying on the floor of the ship-boat; looking at the stars glow and dance with the sea. He also listens to the sea hitting the ship-boat, it sounds like a sympathy playing. He remembers what his father said.

"Son, when you're on the sea during the night, the Earth is still and the sounds of nature are the only thing you hear."

His father is right about the sea at night. He never thought his father was such a great sailor,but he was wrong. When the man gets up, tears were running down his face; instead of wiping his eyes, he let the tears flow down his face. He walks towards his cabin and opens the door, but he shuts the door. The man stands in front of the door, tears still flowing down his face. Suddenly, the man punches the cabin door, without stopping; he falls on his knees with a sudden thump, crying loudly. He continues to cry for five minutes, when he stands up and looks at the brightly lit sky, with a sad look. The sad look turns into a half smile. The mans stands up and walks over to the front of the deck, looking towards the sea.

The man came to the sea, searching for more about being on the sea; instead he found comfort. This trip was not about finding more about the sea, but to find comfort in his father's death, though many years ago. To the man, the sea is to find comfort within his life and that is the greatest gift the sea can give.