Too Empty
7 min readAug 24, 2021
The first time I felt truly alone was three years ago off the coast of a fishing village in Malaysia, sixty feet below the surface.
It was my first real scuba dive after two certification dives. We swam along a coral reef sloping down to the bottom of the ocean, our guide stopping us to point out eels and clownfish and make descriptive hand gestures so we could look for what he saw.