The Wind

Sometimes the wind blows with some strength that moving to the surface is challenging and time there is spent only with buffeting waves and a breeze that pushes you under.  (It's windy now where I am, not metaphorically but literally).  But what could the wind be in this extended metaphor?  I'm begining to think - nothing.  Sometimes wind is just wind, which is to say, sometimes things just are as they are and there's no use in being philosophical (or even lyrical). 

But this works too (for our story and the metaphor and the ocean and the white noise).  I could say, "Imagine an extended metaphor in which there are things that are only as they are and don't mean beyond this."  And you could imagine, "Well, if the ocean is a social circle, couldn't the wind be a new force in that circle."  And this wouldn't be wrong because, once we set one metaphor, anything we relate to an extended analogy must have its literal analog (this is just logical consequence).  

But the wind works better if we set the fact down now that it has no literal analog, and that sometimes a cigar really is just that, even in a made-up confusing analogy about listening and friendship and social worlds and other things that I haven't yet had time to think about.  Sometimes the water of the ocean is just ruff: friends can be hard to deal with, things progress slowly when you want them to progress more quickly (or not at all is fine too), one feels like he/she/you do and it's not smooth and calm.  And sometimes the world doesn't even make it that way, which is to say that sometimes the wind comes from the ocean (and it does, to a degree, if you know about the sun and the water and the wind and how they work).

But we can enjoy this, you and I, because the wind (if anything) is transitory.  And even the destruction the wind owns is more or less transitory (the trees grow again and kites will come down).  And even the destruction we feel from the state of the world is fairly transitory too; all of us move on soon enough, and bittersweetness (following the flood notes) is ok anyway, so why worry?