Nathalie Cabrol

It took me by surprise.

I was not expecting it.

Everything around me, the lake was Arctic blue with all the ray of the sun.

You could tell them apart, every single one of them.

I was surrounded by golden darts.

And it was the most incredible experience.

And I don't know if it's that kind of environment that led me to just, you know, go into whatever state of meditation or whatnot.

But all of a sudden, there was no separation anymore between me, the water, the volcano.

And if I came with questions, they didn't matter anymore because for that fraction of a second, it seemed that I had all the answers in the universe.

You can call it that way.

I still don't know what it means, you know, literally.

But it is that moment where you feel that it doesn't matter.

It really doesn't matter anymore.

It was an absolute peace, absolute understanding, and it was incredible.

It was an absolute awareness.

That would go beyond that.

I think that there is clearly in my mind today, no words that can express how perfect this was.

You know, I started diving pretty much, this is the first thing I did when I was near water.

In fact, there is a very fun little incident with my parents, me being on the shore of a lake on vacation.

I was three years old, maybe.