A Foray into Metanoia

‌Isn't it rather easy to personify some things, rather than looking elsewhere? For example, bestowing human-like tendencies on a fluid representative like the ocean becomes immediately relatable. The waves of it might almost represent the recurring changes in an individual's thoughts and feelings, the two extremes of anger and calm reflecting themselves in human mood swings. The sea often seems to have a mind of its own, rage and peace alike. Of course, it is not above us humans to press our moods on our surroundings,but the ocean seems to resist this influence insistently, somehow...                                                              We do try to either control the sea, or at least glorify it, in some way or the other. The concepts of the sea gods, prevalent in different cultures (such as Poseidon in Greek Mythology), served to focus deification on nature as a means of appeasing a 'higher entity',  through which ultimately humans sought to control nature in one way or the other, by humanizing it . It was definitely better than wresting control of what is natural and misusing resources as we see fit. But the strange thing, if the two time frames are compared, is that before, a certain respect was assigned to something that we recognized was beyond our control, and now we have a false and hollow pride, a laughable belief that we are supreme in a world where we cannot even control our own, let alone forces of immeasurable power that, if they so wished, could easily wipe out our entire civilization.                                                           The sea comes to represent many things, to all of us. It is an unstoppable force of nature for some, a place of solitude for others, even an untapped resource that we're now slowly colonizing for still more. Poets view it as inspiration, while corporations as a way  to revitalize global economy.  Ecologists try to preserve its various elements, without really perceiving the ocean as a whole. What very few realize, is that as many moods the ocean has, it has those many connotations...
For me, it is all of these and yet, none of these. In my opinion, something so vast and yet, at its base, composed of only two elements- hydrogen and oxygen- is very hard to encapsulate in one certain mold. I'm still figuring out what the ocean means to me.