Why I Love Water So Much

When I was nearly fourteen and nearly fifteen I ended up at the same disused hydroelectric dam deep in the French mountains twice. I think by then it was just a reservoir. I stood on the wall of rocks and I felt powerful for the first time in adolescence. I didn’t know what power was. But there on that mountainous wall I found it. I did a project on those lakes and forgot about them.

And then at 26 I needed to heal. I was confined to my bed for the whole of January 2021 with a leg injury. Completely insomniac and nocturnal I would lie in bed all night waiting for my family to bring my food, lonely and watching movies, trying to read books that I couldn’t focus on. 

And then I began to remember the lakes. 

I found a friend’s old Facebook and suddenly those lakes came back to me. As I wrote about them in my Buddha notebook, I began to heal. I went back into the world and embarked on my career in renewable energy and I never forgot those lakes. Two years before at 24 I had for no reason I could explain done a masters in marine spatial planning. Clearly the world wanted me to do water. The world wants me to do water. At 27 in 2021 I paid a taxi driver 100 pounds to take me and my sister to a remote reservoir in rural Wales.

Something was calling me there. I lost my renewable energy job in 2024 and tried to stay in it but the universe wanted me in water. I tried to go into telecommunications but the universe wanted me in water. I was asked to research water like I had researched renewable energy mainly just for myself. And I fell in love. I realised water was so similar to energy. In terms of its applications and uses and how AI can help. I realised water needed me immediately more than energy did. I hope to do both of course.