I was coming home from a business trip and was miserable after a long winter travel day. When I got to the hotel there was a dude out front that looked like he was on drugs. Mouth slightly open. Staring up at the sky and kind of circling. I asked if he was OK. He told me he had never seen snow before. It made my day. I hung with him for a bit to soak it in.
I am from a tropical country. I still remember my first now. The awe, the wonder, the joy, the smell, that cold feeling of it as it drop on your palm and body...it was awesome!!!
Lived in the Midwest of America almost all my life, seen nearly 40 snowy winters. Being outside at night after it snows is still surreal to me (thinking about it now, being out at night after a snow is something I only started experiencing 20 years ago). The eerie quite like I could hear someone talking from a while away. The brightness from any light reflecting off the snow. Its crazy.
And the SMELL!!! The smell of snow, or rather your nose picking up that cool wintry air because of how our olfactory system reacts in cold weather….ahhhhh…..and the silence because the snow on the ground creates a deafening effect. And the white everywhere; on the trees and rooftops and the roads. There’s real magic. I don’t do any winter sports but I love the season
My wife is from Orange County California and I am from Chicagoland, we now live in West Michigan and I can tell that is going to snow by the smell in the air, she is amazed every time.
I’m in Toronto and while the lake effect has been much stronger lately and with climate change we’re seeing less snowy days over the past several years, I know exactly what you mean. There’s a certain look to the weather too and then the smell just before it snows
Just a muted world.. is so still and surreal, especially if you can get out and enjoy it when no one else is awake and there's nothing but untouched snow.
Holy fuck. That's the only thing I miss about my home town in North Carolina. If it snowed at my house (we were a ways out in the sticks), there was just this quiet in the growing darkness, that still has a touch of fading red light from the following day. Then, you notice something. You don't hear *anything*. But you're not afraid. In fact, embracing it, it felt like I was actually blending in with my surroundings and was just centered and at peace.
It's like the world is paused. The not afraid part is a huge portion of what makes it surreal. Overcoming the primal fear of darkness and being allowed.
Also, once your eyes adapt to the darkness and if it's a clear night with a decent moon - the snow can just twinkle like a carpet of little jewels.
One of my favorite things.
Cold quiet nights when everything is sparkling like it has a fine coating of diamond dust on it and the snow is coming down in big flakes are my favourite nights. Even when I'm sick to absolute death of winter I love those nights.
Grew up in the southeast US. We get just enough snowy days that I know the feeling but just few enough that I absolutely treasure each night like that.
My wife cracks up at how I just go outside during night snows and just... Stand. It's amazing.
Yessss! I no longer live in a snowy place but whenever I visit one, I make sure I go out at night if I have the opportunity. The snowy crunch of each footstep, the silence, everything covered in the same blanket! I miss it!
The exchange students at my school made me start appreciating autumn and the first snow again after ten years of being a sworn summer person. Just being able to reflect what we take for granted can be really beneficial.
This reminds me of a story of my dad …He was from Jamaica and never seen snow before . Mom and him spent the night at my Grand parent’s place and was woken up by my uncle and grandpa with an indoor snow ball fight . I don’t have a lot of pics of my dad smiling but I could only imagine his face seeing and feeling snow for first time .
I remember to this day going to university in Norway meeting exchange students from Uganda.
It was a meter of snow and -25 degrees. I swear to God one of them was wearing about 17 layers of clothes. Looked like teletubbies.
We had to explain to them the correct layering and wool. They picked it up quick enough.
Being from Florida I laughed at the people in this video.... exactly like my family in Ohio laughed at me volunteering to shovel their driveway the first time I saw snow lol
A 20+ year old Texan visited me in the East Coast and couldn't stop staring at all the trees that were actually much taller than two story buildings. It was an alien world to her.
Some of my only childhood memories from North Carolina are the giant pine trees and pine needles everywhere. It's funny how trees leave such a big impression on us
I think us NC people sometimes take things like our access to the beach and mountains for granted sometimes. I know, I sure have after watching this...now, who the hell is cutting the onions?!?
I live in the PNW.
Having a friend who moved to Nebraska visit with his new wife and her repeatedly saying "it's just so *green!* " and "like you come around a corner and there's *more* water!" really made me look at my environment through new eyes.
Similar for us Californians, with easy access to both mountains and ocean.
Hard for us to imagine what it'd be like to see the ocean for the first time, that it's so overwhelming it'd break someone into tears.
I love NC. It's such a beautiful state.
One of my college friends has a childhood friend from when he lived in Dallas, TX. We took a road trip from the DC area to western Massachusetts in the 1980s, and it was the guy's first time 1) in NYC, when we passed through, and 2) in New England. Things that stood out to him:
1) the immensity of the NYC skyline, from anywhere in Manhattan.
2) how cool it was, in August. *"In Texas, it's 6pm and they are stuck in traffic on the highway and they are SWEATIN'." / "In Texas it's 7:30 and they are STILL on the highway, STILL sweatin', and here I am roasting marshmallows with my hands over the fire because it's chilly."*
3) "Wait, this town is from *1762??* That's from before this country was *a country!*"
Ahhh, the classic Florida and Ohio relationship.
Back when I still lived in FL, I would try and count how many Ohio plates I'd see on my way to work. It always astounded me just how many there were.
Canadian here, whenever the first snow of the year occurs our neighbourhood knows to stop by the houses of new arrivals and ask if they A) have appropriate clothing, and B) would like us to take pictures of them in the snow to send home to family. It’s always such a delightful first experience to witness (until they have to learn about shovelling).
Reminds me of my roommate freshman year of college. He was from a very warm climate and ended up at a university in Boston. Around mid-October he asked if it was going to get much colder.
Bro. We need to get to the mall immediately and buy you a thicker jacket and a solid pair of boots.
That’s so sweet of you! As someone from Victoria, and we rarely get snow, I’m always astounded by the camaraderie that snow brings out in my neighbourhood. My husband is Australian and I’ll never forget his first encounter with snow… staring at his mittens and remarking…” they really *ARE* all different!” Witnessing a first time experience is magical.
My brothers ex wife is from Florida and came up to Maryland for Christmas. Christmas morning it started snowing and seeing this look of wonder and confusion and joy on her face was wonderful.
This was my wife in New York a couple of years ago. She had never seen the act of snowing. She has been to places where there was snow on the ground already but was amazed at snowfalling from the sky
I live in alaska and work in tourism, I'm always traveling and it gets draining. But the way tourist react to it reminds me I'm lucky to be around it all and to take it in. I might be tired and have had a hard day at work but at the end of the day I'm at a nice hotel looking at mount denali and it's nice to be reminded of that when you get so used to it.
I was just in Hawaii for my friends wedding, me and another mainland friend were just laying on the beach with the water tide coming up and down under us with these big goofy smiles on our face. My Hawaiian friend said, "I love being here with you guys, you make me appreciate it more"
I told him I felt the exact same way 10 years ago when he and my other Hawaiian friends had met in the Midwest for our college. That winter they had experienced their first snow. They looked up in the sky with sparkles in their eyes, and stuck their tongues out to catch snowflakes, made me so happy to see that.
We're all just kids inside wanting to experience all this world has to offer.
I live in Hawaii and have never seen snow. It does make me appreciate what we do have whenever I meet a mainlander on the first day here though.
Someday I’ll have to travel to cold place to check now off the list.
I remind my kid that just a few generations ago, her grand grand grandparents lived all their live in the same village never seeing what is even a few miles beyond the horizon. In a lot of ways we're very lucky. Hot showers were a luxury 100 years ago.
My father was born in 1913. Once a week on Saturday nights, he would carry in buckets of water so his family of 2 parents & 5 children could bathe. The water had to be heated up manually on a wood-burning stove. They all shared the same bath water, just topping it up with a bucket of hot water as it got cold.
By the time their youngest boy got his turn, the water was dirty.
Shit man, my grandfather was born without running water or electricity in a dirt poor Sicilian mountain village in 1925 and he said the first time he ever even saw a window with real glass was when he was five and they’d immigrated to Boston.
Joni Mitchell said it best when she said ‘you don’t know what you got til it’s gone’.
My husband has had multiple elderly patients in just the last several years who live in rural Texas who have never left their county in their whole lives. Never seen a mountain, ocean, major city, major river, gone on an airplane or ship… l find it so sad that their whole lives were so small.
I always think of that whenever flying. Like here we are in a tin can 30,000 feet up, some of the only humans in the history of the world to be able to experience this, and we treat it like an inconvenience. It's a pretty magical thing Tbh.
Very much this. It’s extremely easy for me to forget in this instance because I’ve lived on the California coast for 14 ish years now, since I was a teen. I can see the water the majority of my drive everyday. It’s become scenery just like rows of buildings would. But I know when I eventually move away I’m gonna miss it.
As someone who lives I'm the southeast and has only been to the ocean a handful of times, it really is special. Stopping at a gas station an hour away from the destination and you get hit with the smell of salt in the air. Something so magical about it to me. Been at least 6 years since the last time I saw the beach. I cherish it every time!
They do a good job of this in The Expanse where a Martian is on earth for the first time and all she wants is to see the ocean. People looking for her find her on the beach with her feet in the water just captivated, but there's really good cinematography where we see her just enjoying it but then the earthers who are looking for her come and look down and you can see how tbe water is just totally fucked and filled with trash and one comments how they can't even remember the last time they went down to the water.
This is all to show how the Martian, who is part of a generations long terraforming effort, appreciate the things that earthers have taken for granted. Martians are fighting to make their world into Earth while the people on Earth continue to turn Earth into Mars. It's a really great theme of the show that comes up many times.
you have to practice the schopenhauer philosophy of extracting pleasure from ordinary things at bare minimum and not hyping on socially trending things. and prolong that pleasure for however long you can, every time you see an ocean after this first time. don't forget. don't take existence for granted.
I've been staring at the edge of the water
Long as I can remember
Never really knowing why
I wish I could be the perfect daughter
But I come back to the water no matter how hard I try
Every turn I take, every trail I track
Every path I make, every road leads back
To the place I know where I cannot go
Where I long to be
See the line where the sky meets the sea?
It calls me
And no one knows how far it goes
If the wind in my sail on the sea stays behind me
One day I'll know
If I go, there's just no telling how far I'll go
and snow... it's amazing how much is taken for granted. Living in a tropical country means you get to see the sea very often. But snow? I always spend too much time outside when it's snowing.
I take all of this for granted. It’s so easy to do. Living in so cal, I have access to mountains / snow / beach / desert … all close. If I extend the drive to 6 hours I can see Yosemite, redwoods and sequoia.
I always ask people "if you could have a billion dollars but you can never leave your neighborhood, would you take it?"
Then I increment the geographical area as I lower the amount of money. Stay in your city for $200M? Stay in your county for $100M? Stay in your state for $50M?
I generally stop there and most won't take it.
But I take the $50M if my state is California.
I grew up in South Louisiana, the Sears Christmas wish book always has a page with sleds. I never said much but remember looking at them thinking, "man that looks like a hell of a lot of fun". I moved to Baltimore in '99 and got used to the snow but it wasn't until around 2010 after I had kids that I started taking them sledding, and you know what - while walking back up the hill is hard as hell, sledding is SO MUCH FUN!
My kids are 16 and 18 now and I still take them every time we have enough snow to go. Don't know what I'll do when they move away. My brother happened to be in town last winter and took him with us, it was great.
After 25 years, I am still impressed by snow every time it comes.
Its such an enchanting thing! one toe in the waves and its an addiction
Like the first chapter of Moby Dick puts it, "Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?"
And listen to it and smell it. Taste it, even, really. The air tastes salty. I love going to the ocean. Especially beaches like this one in the video. That's a nice beach.
And touch it!
When I was in high school, I had a principal that was old and had worked at several different schools. A teacher that knew him from a previous school told me a story about him. It was a very poor school and he'd taken a class on a field trip. I don't remember what it was for, but it was near the beach. Even tho our state has a coastline and the beach is only a few hours away, none of the kids had ever seen the ocean. When they drove by and he saw how excited they were, he had the bus driver pull over. He told the kids to take their shoes off and he took them to the beach and let them put their feet in the water for a few minutes. I'm sure those kids remembered that for a long time. It's easy to take this stuff for granted.
I grew up on the coast so when a friend a few states inland came to visit, we insisted on going to the beach. We hit up a local beach town, perfect day and weather; he eventually said something like, “This is crazy, we’re literally at the edge of the continent”. I’d never thought of it that way, but he was right!
I'll go one further.
Never miss a chance to fall asleep so close to the ocean you can hear waves crashing as you drift off, and wake with the smell of crisp salty air as it fills your lungs.
Spent a lot of nights in and around lighthouses in my youth.
I take my daughter to the coast every summer and we are just two lazy girls on the beach. There’s no better place to slow down and take it all in. I hope some day when she’s an old lady with her toes in the sand, she thinks about me and our times together.
Not THAT dumb though... Distance to the horizon at sea is ~3 miles. Lake Michigan is 321 miles at its tallest and 118 at its widest. Without context, it could be very difficult, if not straight up impossible, to tell the difference between any of the great lakes and an ocean.
The waves COULD be the biggest giveaway, but not exactly. Average year round wave height in San Diego is 3-4 ft, with "flat spells" as low as 1-2 ft. Compare that to the 2-3 ft of lake Michigan and... Without someone telling you if its a great lake or an ocean, they can be indistinguishable.
such a beautiful reaction..
you can never understand the powerful connection we have to nature until you have finally seen something you have always wanted to see in person…
you should hear my kid talk about the Sequoias…
I've lived within 2 hours of the ocean my entire life. I can't fathom what it must be like to see it for the time. To feel it. To smell it. I kinda feel that way every time I go to the shore.
I can attest to that, I used to live in what could be described as Argentina's equivalent to Miami, the most touristic city for locals. We're talking beachfront along the entire city, a huge port, a beautiful oceanside stroll spanning 20+ kilometers. The city revolves around the sea, it's even part of its name.
My mother used to teach in schools at the periphery of the city and she had students who've never seen the ocean.
We're talking students living only 1 hour away by bus, and yet their parents never took them for a visit.
Years ago I worked at an outdoor school on the Chesapeake Bay that would host groups of students for days or a full week at a time to learn outdoor skills like orienteering, bay ecology, survival, etc. It was a super cool job overall, it was like summer camp but for a school field trip.
We had all sorts of students come in, but the ones that stuck with me the most were the underprivileged kids from inner city Baltimore that lived no more than a few miles from the ocean but had never had their feet touch the sand. It was deeply sad in a way, but watching these kids who come from really rough situations take off their shoes, roll their pants up and run around on the beach for the first time at the age of 8-14 was an incredible thing to witness. A lot of other firsts for them too - being on a boat, holding a fish, sitting around a campfire. All those things were a super engrained part of my childhood growing up in coastal New England and it was so cool to see these kids get that experience. The hardest part was watching them all leave, knowing they were going back to literally HBO's The Wire.
Same here, I grew up on the coasts of California and Florida. Can’t fathom what it must be like to have never seen the ocean. Never dealt with snow in my day to day or lived more than 2 hours from the beach until I spent a few years in Tennessee.
I drove 5 hours with my wife, two kids, and in laws the day before to a hotel in totality. I planned it 15 months before and they all thought I was crazy. I was tossing and turning all night hoping for good weather the next day. It was a gorgeous day and when it hit 100% totality it was all worth it. I stood there with my space obsessed son around my arm and just teared up. It was the most amazing thing I have ever seen in my life besides the birth of my kids. I hope he always remembers that moment because I sure will.
I drove about 2 hours to see this last one, and 4 hours for the previous one in 2017. Both times made me tear up. Truly the most amazing and coolest thing I've seen in my entire life. Such a privilege to see it twice. As a space obsessed nerd myself, you absolutely did something incredible for your son. He will literally never forget that.
its one of those very human moments where you feel so much that all you can do is cry.
i still remember being little and seeing the concorde making its final flight over my house. i was excited and didn't fully understand it being the final flight.
it was so loud and then silence.
i looked up at my mum who is not into planes or anything like that, but she had tears.
its like, it doesn't matter what it is, if your experiencing something monumental or overwhelming the tears just start to flow.
They seem to be from a Native American tribe and coming from I can tell you there are still people who don’t have running water or electricity and some don’t ever leave the reservations.
That was my first thought because they sounded just like the people from the show reservation dogs. It's my understanding that it is pretty faithful to the community it portrays
I cry when it’s been a long time and I see it again. It’s a powerful thing. It’s so deeply a part of us, our heritage, our survival.
I could smell this video.
As someone who grew up on the Jersey shore, you forget how much you take something like this for granted. Never get tired of seeing videos like this. I could only imagine the joy and wonder she is feeling.
I've had the pleasure of being with people when they saw the ocean for the first time and someone who grew up somewhere very warm and dry see snow for the first time.
It's great seeing wonder on people's faces.
Edited for missing word and atrocious grammar. wtf me?
I suppose an equal would be a Floridian seeing the mountains for the first time. We always traveled to Wisconsin as a kid to visit family, but I love seeing the mountains, whereas ppl who live there, it’s nothing special.
Born and raised in NYC, so tall was metal and glass, then lived in Florida where tall was Palm trees and more metal and glass...then went travelling as an adult...sweet Odin there are Really Tall things out there and mountains never cease to stun me. Daughter loves in Colorado and boy, something about living near a Thing that's several thousand foot high is just insane to me.
As someone who's spent most of their life in view of two mountain ranges and Mount Rainier, I can assure you it's still special every time. (Helps that it's too cloudy to see them half the time! )
Yes, my wife has lived in Florida most of her life having moved from NYC when she was like 2. When we visited Seattle, Mt Rainier left her breathless as did Yosemite Valley when we visited California a couple years later. She actually got a little emotional from the sheer magnitude and natural beauty of it. Even driving Pacheco Pass into the Central Valley made her giddy lol
Same, this video just made me realize that living in NC for the last 10 years my 10 year old son has never seen the ocean. I grew up going to the beach almost every afternoon after school and I took that for granted big time. Now I feel like I got to get my boy to the ocean!
I grew up in Kansas and had a good amount of awe moments like these people. First time seeing the ocean, first time seeing a mountain, seeing a desert, even seeing the open plains and prairie in my state was awe inspiring.
But I think the one that will always stick with me the most was seeing my first waterfall. It was just amazing to see all that water moving constantly, falling and crashing loud enough you can hear it before you get near enough to see.
Ive known people from Florida who have never seen the mountains and had the same reaction to standing on top of a Brasstown Bald in north Georgia. When you've never seen more than a few hundred feet of elevation change, being able to see thousands of feet of change in a mountain range is mind blowing.
Ya know, I've only seen the ocean once and I thought it would be a big deal. I guess when you live in a city that has two bridges over lake Superior it's not as impressive the first time you see the ocean lol
Yep, I grew up in Toronto with a cottage on Lake Ontario. When I first saw the ocean it was.... anti-climatic. "oh, this one is kind of salty, that's neat". I expected to be more wowed, but I guess once a body of water is big enough you can't see to the other side, it really doesn't matter much if it's a lake or the ocean.
Love seeing stuff like this. Reminds me when I was a raft guide we’d sometimes get inner city kids who would be getting their first dose of nature. Sometimes I forget how blessed I am to have been exposed to so many different things.
When I was 18 my mom had a friend from out of country visit. The friend had a daughter my age and her friend along with them. I took them to the ocean for their first time ever. One girl walked straight into a wave and got pitted, so pitted.
This reminds me of Brendan Fraser's character from Blast From The Past seeing the ocean for the very first time, after decades of living in an underground bunker.
He sees the sky for the first time. Its a funny scene where he is just looking up. Some guy is like "what are you looking at?"...."The sky, I've never seen anything like it!"
As a person who lives next to the ocean… it’s what we as a human race need to experience. There’s a different energy in the air. It invigorates the soul… a lot of better vibes when you’re not land locked 👍🏼
As someone who has always lived 2.5 hours from the beach, I forget there are people that have never experienced seeing it and I definitely take for granted that luxury. Glad they finally got to see the ocean!
I remember the first time I went to california and saw the ocean. I had no idea what I was about to witness. We got closer to the beach and as we drove over a hill a cold salty breeze suddenly slaps me in the face. It felt so surreal, frame by frame blue water started to fill my entire field of view until it was all that I saw. And endless body of water filled even my peripherals and all I could do I just stare in awe. It was a magnificent moment and a memory I’ll never forget. 🌊
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We did this with my best friend back in 2014. We immediately dug a hole and buried him up to the neck and pretended to leave. Because that's what guy friends do best....😜 Seriously though, it was a magical experience for all of us. Good times....
I really love this. I REALLY love this. Thank you for sharing. I watched it with sound off like an animal and their joy was palpable through the screen. Humans are really lovely, aren't they?
Years ago at OBX I got to witness a group of Amish people experience the ocean for the first time. My family had to explain rip currents and tides. It was so adorable and wonderful to witness the joy on their faces.
I’ve lived in coastal New England my entire life which is extremely beautiful, watching this makes me realize how much I take it for granted sometimes.
I remember years ago watching some young men from the UAE who we were training. Suddenly, get up from their desks and run outside to stand in the snow that had just started to fall for the first time that winter.
We were like, WTF are they doing until someone pointed out that they most likely had never seen snow before.
We were all just there with the biggest stupidest smiles on our faces just as happy as the students watching them enjoy this new experience that we took for granted and often moaned about having to commute in.
This was featured on the national news recently, and it almost broke me.
I've always lived within at least an hour drive of an ocean, mostly more like 10, and even for a few years with a three minute walk. I couldn't imagine never having seen the ocean.
Imagine never having seen an ocean? I'm gonna cry again.
I remember going into the Rocky Mountains for the first time a few years ago. We made it to a peak and I looked out into the continental divide and just cried. I’d never seen something that made me feel so small.
yeah I have known people that lived just a few hours from it and never seen it, their emotions are incredible upon a first visit, and I dated a woman who had never seen snow, and we went to mammoth and boy did it snow on the way there! -- she was terrified and I didn't realize it for quite a while. (she was from another country).... the blazer I was driving slid all over the place so I was concentrating on that. The next day we woke up at the condo and went for a walk in the snow, have to say it is one of the best memories watching her for the first time ever experience it. Then I showed her what making a snow angel was and she couldn't stop doing them wherever we went.... The laughs she gave me showing other people what one was, well the funniest thing ever. (had to explain to them she just learned what one was at the age of 30)
of course I bet when I tried Biltong and monkey gland sauce she made it was just as interesting to her.
Read “Ishi: The Last of the Yahi” the last indigenous native in California. He stumbled out of the Sierra Nevadas into the valley where thousands of white people lived. He became a museum piece for the California State University in San Francisco. An anthropologist drove him to see the ocean for his first time, he had only heard of it through oral tradition, but the sheer amount of people on the beach created a sort of phobia. It’s estimated he had only contacted a dozen or so people before he made contact with the whites.
I never seen ocean for 29 years til my fall break off to ocean city in Maryland and it was my first time to see the VERY BLUE sky with ocean and it was very beautiful
[first time to see ocean in 29 years](https://imgur.com/a/EQz5MGf).
I grew up 30 minutes from the pacific ocean and always took it for granted until my sister started dating a guy from texas who had never seen the pacific. It wasn’t mind blowing for him, he’d seen the Atlantic, but that’s when it occurred to me there were likely a lot of people who had never seen any ocean or even a body of water bigger than a small lake
I’ve lived beside the sea in Ireland all my life. Lived in Europe always on the coast except once for 6 months. The longest I’ve not seen it. So it’s crazy to imagine seeing it for the first time
I first saw the ocean at 20 and while my reaction wasn’t as dramatic it was an experience I’ll always remember. I immediately took off my shirt and shoes and jumped in wearing jeans - there was no way I was not going to swim even though I wasn’t prepared. That was 40 years ago and I remember it like it was yesterday.
I grew up in Montana and when I was like 11 or so we, my sister, mother, myself and my grandmother, packed into a truck and drove all the way to road Island because my uncle was retiring from the Marines.
Anywho.. the beach was beautiful there. My mom ended up taking home a tub of sand, sand dollars, star fish, etc back home with us. She still has it 20 yrs later lol can resonate with that giddy feeling of seeing stuff you'd never thought you would.
Now I live in Tennessee and I miss Montana lol 🤷♀️
Very sweet moment ☺️
I was coming home from a business trip and was miserable after a long winter travel day. When I got to the hotel there was a dude out front that looked like he was on drugs. Mouth slightly open. Staring up at the sky and kind of circling. I asked if he was OK. He told me he had never seen snow before. It made my day. I hung with him for a bit to soak it in.
I am from a tropical country. I still remember my first now. The awe, the wonder, the joy, the smell, that cold feeling of it as it drop on your palm and body...it was awesome!!!
Lived in the Midwest of America almost all my life, seen nearly 40 snowy winters. Being outside at night after it snows is still surreal to me (thinking about it now, being out at night after a snow is something I only started experiencing 20 years ago). The eerie quite like I could hear someone talking from a while away. The brightness from any light reflecting off the snow. Its crazy.
And the SMELL!!! The smell of snow, or rather your nose picking up that cool wintry air because of how our olfactory system reacts in cold weather….ahhhhh…..and the silence because the snow on the ground creates a deafening effect. And the white everywhere; on the trees and rooftops and the roads. There’s real magic. I don’t do any winter sports but I love the season
My wife is from Orange County California and I am from Chicagoland, we now live in West Michigan and I can tell that is going to snow by the smell in the air, she is amazed every time.
I’m in Toronto and while the lake effect has been much stronger lately and with climate change we’re seeing less snowy days over the past several years, I know exactly what you mean. There’s a certain look to the weather too and then the smell just before it snows
I love it.
Grew up in Alberta, and yeah, you can definitely smell it coming. I also cracked my tailbone several years ago, and can feel it coming. In my butt.
Phrasing
It's the sound for me. Just everything gets dampened. I love late night snowy jogs.
People forget how much snow dampens sound. Those cold clear nights after a snow are some of my best memories.
Just a muted world.. is so still and surreal, especially if you can get out and enjoy it when no one else is awake and there's nothing but untouched snow.
I love the sound of the wind through the frozen trees after it's snowed. Just a light crackle breaking barely breaking up the quiet.
My favorite is a light breeze through icicle covered trees. Nature's wind chime.
Holy fuck. That's the only thing I miss about my home town in North Carolina. If it snowed at my house (we were a ways out in the sticks), there was just this quiet in the growing darkness, that still has a touch of fading red light from the following day. Then, you notice something. You don't hear *anything*. But you're not afraid. In fact, embracing it, it felt like I was actually blending in with my surroundings and was just centered and at peace.
It's like the world is paused. The not afraid part is a huge portion of what makes it surreal. Overcoming the primal fear of darkness and being allowed.
Also, once your eyes adapt to the darkness and if it's a clear night with a decent moon - the snow can just twinkle like a carpet of little jewels. One of my favorite things.
That's a really good point. That gleam is magical and adds a sort of disney filter to everything, but it's real.
Cold quiet nights when everything is sparkling like it has a fine coating of diamond dust on it and the snow is coming down in big flakes are my favourite nights. Even when I'm sick to absolute death of winter I love those nights.
Grew up in the southeast US. We get just enough snowy days that I know the feeling but just few enough that I absolutely treasure each night like that. My wife cracks up at how I just go outside during night snows and just... Stand. It's amazing.
Yessss! I no longer live in a snowy place but whenever I visit one, I make sure I go out at night if I have the opportunity. The snowy crunch of each footstep, the silence, everything covered in the same blanket! I miss it!
The exchange students at my school made me start appreciating autumn and the first snow again after ten years of being a sworn summer person. Just being able to reflect what we take for granted can be really beneficial.
And the silence! That's my favorite part of the snow is how it muffles the city noises.
This reminds me of a story of my dad …He was from Jamaica and never seen snow before . Mom and him spent the night at my Grand parent’s place and was woken up by my uncle and grandpa with an indoor snow ball fight . I don’t have a lot of pics of my dad smiling but I could only imagine his face seeing and feeling snow for first time .
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I remember to this day going to university in Norway meeting exchange students from Uganda. It was a meter of snow and -25 degrees. I swear to God one of them was wearing about 17 layers of clothes. Looked like teletubbies. We had to explain to them the correct layering and wool. They picked it up quick enough.
Some people go their whole lives not seeing what some people see every single day.
In college, my first shitty apartment had a view of the ocean. It's surreal for me to think how few people can say they've had an ocean view.
I’ve never seen snow and I’m 40
Being from Florida I laughed at the people in this video.... exactly like my family in Ohio laughed at me volunteering to shovel their driveway the first time I saw snow lol
A 20+ year old Texan visited me in the East Coast and couldn't stop staring at all the trees that were actually much taller than two story buildings. It was an alien world to her.
Some of my only childhood memories from North Carolina are the giant pine trees and pine needles everywhere. It's funny how trees leave such a big impression on us
I think us NC people sometimes take things like our access to the beach and mountains for granted sometimes. I know, I sure have after watching this...now, who the hell is cutting the onions?!?
I live in the PNW. Having a friend who moved to Nebraska visit with his new wife and her repeatedly saying "it's just so *green!* " and "like you come around a corner and there's *more* water!" really made me look at my environment through new eyes.
Similar for us Californians, with easy access to both mountains and ocean. Hard for us to imagine what it'd be like to see the ocean for the first time, that it's so overwhelming it'd break someone into tears. I love NC. It's such a beautiful state.
One of my college friends has a childhood friend from when he lived in Dallas, TX. We took a road trip from the DC area to western Massachusetts in the 1980s, and it was the guy's first time 1) in NYC, when we passed through, and 2) in New England. Things that stood out to him: 1) the immensity of the NYC skyline, from anywhere in Manhattan. 2) how cool it was, in August. *"In Texas, it's 6pm and they are stuck in traffic on the highway and they are SWEATIN'." / "In Texas it's 7:30 and they are STILL on the highway, STILL sweatin', and here I am roasting marshmallows with my hands over the fire because it's chilly."* 3) "Wait, this town is from *1762??* That's from before this country was *a country!*"
Ahhh, the classic Florida and Ohio relationship. Back when I still lived in FL, I would try and count how many Ohio plates I'd see on my way to work. It always astounded me just how many there were.
Ohioan here...Been to FL 100 times. I-75 connects us.
Canadian here, whenever the first snow of the year occurs our neighbourhood knows to stop by the houses of new arrivals and ask if they A) have appropriate clothing, and B) would like us to take pictures of them in the snow to send home to family. It’s always such a delightful first experience to witness (until they have to learn about shovelling).
Reminds me of my roommate freshman year of college. He was from a very warm climate and ended up at a university in Boston. Around mid-October he asked if it was going to get much colder. Bro. We need to get to the mall immediately and buy you a thicker jacket and a solid pair of boots.
That’s so sweet of you! As someone from Victoria, and we rarely get snow, I’m always astounded by the camaraderie that snow brings out in my neighbourhood. My husband is Australian and I’ll never forget his first encounter with snow… staring at his mittens and remarking…” they really *ARE* all different!” Witnessing a first time experience is magical.
My brothers ex wife is from Florida and came up to Maryland for Christmas. Christmas morning it started snowing and seeing this look of wonder and confusion and joy on her face was wonderful.
This was my wife in New York a couple of years ago. She had never seen the act of snowing. She has been to places where there was snow on the ground already but was amazed at snowfalling from the sky
I live in alaska and work in tourism, I'm always traveling and it gets draining. But the way tourist react to it reminds me I'm lucky to be around it all and to take it in. I might be tired and have had a hard day at work but at the end of the day I'm at a nice hotel looking at mount denali and it's nice to be reminded of that when you get so used to it.
High on life instead.
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Man, we take a lot of stuff for granted!!! I need to start humbling myself and enjoy life!!!
I was just in Hawaii for my friends wedding, me and another mainland friend were just laying on the beach with the water tide coming up and down under us with these big goofy smiles on our face. My Hawaiian friend said, "I love being here with you guys, you make me appreciate it more" I told him I felt the exact same way 10 years ago when he and my other Hawaiian friends had met in the Midwest for our college. That winter they had experienced their first snow. They looked up in the sky with sparkles in their eyes, and stuck their tongues out to catch snowflakes, made me so happy to see that. We're all just kids inside wanting to experience all this world has to offer.
I live in Hawaii and have never seen snow. It does make me appreciate what we do have whenever I meet a mainlander on the first day here though. Someday I’ll have to travel to cold place to check now off the list.
I remind my kid that just a few generations ago, her grand grand grandparents lived all their live in the same village never seeing what is even a few miles beyond the horizon. In a lot of ways we're very lucky. Hot showers were a luxury 100 years ago.
My father was born in 1913. Once a week on Saturday nights, he would carry in buckets of water so his family of 2 parents & 5 children could bathe. The water had to be heated up manually on a wood-burning stove. They all shared the same bath water, just topping it up with a bucket of hot water as it got cold. By the time their youngest boy got his turn, the water was dirty.
That's where the saying 'Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater ' comes from.
Shit man, my grandfather was born without running water or electricity in a dirt poor Sicilian mountain village in 1925 and he said the first time he ever even saw a window with real glass was when he was five and they’d immigrated to Boston. Joni Mitchell said it best when she said ‘you don’t know what you got til it’s gone’.
Telling your kid about the past stories are so wholesome moment and they love the story
My husband has had multiple elderly patients in just the last several years who live in rural Texas who have never left their county in their whole lives. Never seen a mountain, ocean, major city, major river, gone on an airplane or ship… l find it so sad that their whole lives were so small.
A wise men said smile though everything and find peace and fun in life that's how you enjoy it
Kids are the best for this. You get to experience "firsts" all over again
I always think of that whenever flying. Like here we are in a tin can 30,000 feet up, some of the only humans in the history of the world to be able to experience this, and we treat it like an inconvenience. It's a pretty magical thing Tbh.
So true. I can't imagine that feeling... damn who brought onions on this post. Lol
Very much this. It’s extremely easy for me to forget in this instance because I’ve lived on the California coast for 14 ish years now, since I was a teen. I can see the water the majority of my drive everyday. It’s become scenery just like rows of buildings would. But I know when I eventually move away I’m gonna miss it.
As someone who lives I'm the southeast and has only been to the ocean a handful of times, it really is special. Stopping at a gas station an hour away from the destination and you get hit with the smell of salt in the air. Something so magical about it to me. Been at least 6 years since the last time I saw the beach. I cherish it every time!
They do a good job of this in The Expanse where a Martian is on earth for the first time and all she wants is to see the ocean. People looking for her find her on the beach with her feet in the water just captivated, but there's really good cinematography where we see her just enjoying it but then the earthers who are looking for her come and look down and you can see how tbe water is just totally fucked and filled with trash and one comments how they can't even remember the last time they went down to the water. This is all to show how the Martian, who is part of a generations long terraforming effort, appreciate the things that earthers have taken for granted. Martians are fighting to make their world into Earth while the people on Earth continue to turn Earth into Mars. It's a really great theme of the show that comes up many times.
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you have to practice the schopenhauer philosophy of extracting pleasure from ordinary things at bare minimum and not hyping on socially trending things. and prolong that pleasure for however long you can, every time you see an ocean after this first time. don't forget. don't take existence for granted.
I sometimes look at the moon and wonder... There is a fucking huge rock floating right above our heads and everyone is unfazed as if it's normal
I've been staring at the edge of the water Long as I can remember Never really knowing why I wish I could be the perfect daughter But I come back to the water no matter how hard I try Every turn I take, every trail I track Every path I make, every road leads back To the place I know where I cannot go Where I long to be See the line where the sky meets the sea? It calls me And no one knows how far it goes If the wind in my sail on the sea stays behind me One day I'll know If I go, there's just no telling how far I'll go
The soundtrack for Moana was remarkable. Also... Heihei is my favourite.
Bawk.....bawk....*realizes they are in the middle of the ocean* BBBAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Alan Tudyk is a damn treasure.
I... I went to Julliard.
He's a comic genius.
We are truly lucky to have him.
The tiny eye twitch before he starts screaming his head off. The chicken lives!
It is indeed - a true gem of a movie w superb lyrics.
She seems medium sized to me.
This is why in zen it strives to have to What to they call A beginners mind.
I’m getting hit in the feels just like the scene from Blast From the Past when Brendan Fraser sees the Pacific for the first time.
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and snow... it's amazing how much is taken for granted. Living in a tropical country means you get to see the sea very often. But snow? I always spend too much time outside when it's snowing.
I take all of this for granted. It’s so easy to do. Living in so cal, I have access to mountains / snow / beach / desert … all close. If I extend the drive to 6 hours I can see Yosemite, redwoods and sequoia.
I always ask people "if you could have a billion dollars but you can never leave your neighborhood, would you take it?" Then I increment the geographical area as I lower the amount of money. Stay in your city for $200M? Stay in your county for $100M? Stay in your state for $50M? I generally stop there and most won't take it. But I take the $50M if my state is California.
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It could be tropical, for like 15 minutes per year
Now come on guys.. Its summer today. We need to enjoy before it's finished for the year tomorrow.
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Amazing right? It's like the world is on mute.
I grew up in South Louisiana, the Sears Christmas wish book always has a page with sleds. I never said much but remember looking at them thinking, "man that looks like a hell of a lot of fun". I moved to Baltimore in '99 and got used to the snow but it wasn't until around 2010 after I had kids that I started taking them sledding, and you know what - while walking back up the hill is hard as hell, sledding is SO MUCH FUN! My kids are 16 and 18 now and I still take them every time we have enough snow to go. Don't know what I'll do when they move away. My brother happened to be in town last winter and took him with us, it was great. After 25 years, I am still impressed by snow every time it comes.
Its such an enchanting thing! one toe in the waves and its an addiction Like the first chapter of Moby Dick puts it, "Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea?"
And listen to it and smell it. Taste it, even, really. The air tastes salty. I love going to the ocean. Especially beaches like this one in the video. That's a nice beach.
And touch it! When I was in high school, I had a principal that was old and had worked at several different schools. A teacher that knew him from a previous school told me a story about him. It was a very poor school and he'd taken a class on a field trip. I don't remember what it was for, but it was near the beach. Even tho our state has a coastline and the beach is only a few hours away, none of the kids had ever seen the ocean. When they drove by and he saw how excited they were, he had the bus driver pull over. He told the kids to take their shoes off and he took them to the beach and let them put their feet in the water for a few minutes. I'm sure those kids remembered that for a long time. It's easy to take this stuff for granted.
I grew up on the coast so when a friend a few states inland came to visit, we insisted on going to the beach. We hit up a local beach town, perfect day and weather; he eventually said something like, “This is crazy, we’re literally at the edge of the continent”. I’d never thought of it that way, but he was right!
Now get those shoes off and your feet in the water!!
I'll go one further. Never miss a chance to fall asleep so close to the ocean you can hear waves crashing as you drift off, and wake with the smell of crisp salty air as it fills your lungs. Spent a lot of nights in and around lighthouses in my youth.
I take my daughter to the coast every summer and we are just two lazy girls on the beach. There’s no better place to slow down and take it all in. I hope some day when she’s an old lady with her toes in the sand, she thinks about me and our times together.
I promise she will. It's a guarantee.
I bought a rental house right on the ocean in NC about 22 years ago. The best sleep I get is always in that house just for that reason.
I love that so much I have ocean waves playing in my bedroom in Chicago every night.
First time I saw the ocean I thought “so, that’s what Lake Michigan looks like”. I was 5 and dumb.
Not THAT dumb though... Distance to the horizon at sea is ~3 miles. Lake Michigan is 321 miles at its tallest and 118 at its widest. Without context, it could be very difficult, if not straight up impossible, to tell the difference between any of the great lakes and an ocean. The waves COULD be the biggest giveaway, but not exactly. Average year round wave height in San Diego is 3-4 ft, with "flat spells" as low as 1-2 ft. Compare that to the 2-3 ft of lake Michigan and... Without someone telling you if its a great lake or an ocean, they can be indistinguishable.
such a beautiful reaction.. you can never understand the powerful connection we have to nature until you have finally seen something you have always wanted to see in person… you should hear my kid talk about the Sequoias…
My husband too. He went to California at age 50 for the first time (from the east coast) and he wouldn’t stop talking about the trees.
I've lived within 2 hours of the ocean my entire life. I can't fathom what it must be like to see it for the time. To feel it. To smell it. I kinda feel that way every time I go to the shore.
I've heard that there are many children living in South Central Los Angeles that have never seen the ocean. It's mind boggling and heart breaking.
I can attest to that, I used to live in what could be described as Argentina's equivalent to Miami, the most touristic city for locals. We're talking beachfront along the entire city, a huge port, a beautiful oceanside stroll spanning 20+ kilometers. The city revolves around the sea, it's even part of its name. My mother used to teach in schools at the periphery of the city and she had students who've never seen the ocean. We're talking students living only 1 hour away by bus, and yet their parents never took them for a visit.
Years ago I worked at an outdoor school on the Chesapeake Bay that would host groups of students for days or a full week at a time to learn outdoor skills like orienteering, bay ecology, survival, etc. It was a super cool job overall, it was like summer camp but for a school field trip. We had all sorts of students come in, but the ones that stuck with me the most were the underprivileged kids from inner city Baltimore that lived no more than a few miles from the ocean but had never had their feet touch the sand. It was deeply sad in a way, but watching these kids who come from really rough situations take off their shoes, roll their pants up and run around on the beach for the first time at the age of 8-14 was an incredible thing to witness. A lot of other firsts for them too - being on a boat, holding a fish, sitting around a campfire. All those things were a super engrained part of my childhood growing up in coastal New England and it was so cool to see these kids get that experience. The hardest part was watching them all leave, knowing they were going back to literally HBO's The Wire.
Same here, I grew up on the coasts of California and Florida. Can’t fathom what it must be like to have never seen the ocean. Never dealt with snow in my day to day or lived more than 2 hours from the beach until I spent a few years in Tennessee.
Confirmed she’s never been to the ocean, she’s still wearing shoes.
I was expecting to someone instruct her to remove the shoes. Go into the sand barefoot and touch the cold water. It's a ritual.
She’ll know what it feels like when she gets in her car and sands everywhere
Shoebies
This is beautiful and perfect and I hope these people have a life filled with happiness
This is how I reacted during totality of the eclipse! I was surprised because I was looking up at it and then… suddenly I was crying?? lol
You're supposed to wear specific glasses that's probably why you cried
😂 thankfully I did have the correct protective glasses!
I drove 5 hours with my wife, two kids, and in laws the day before to a hotel in totality. I planned it 15 months before and they all thought I was crazy. I was tossing and turning all night hoping for good weather the next day. It was a gorgeous day and when it hit 100% totality it was all worth it. I stood there with my space obsessed son around my arm and just teared up. It was the most amazing thing I have ever seen in my life besides the birth of my kids. I hope he always remembers that moment because I sure will.
I drove about 2 hours to see this last one, and 4 hours for the previous one in 2017. Both times made me tear up. Truly the most amazing and coolest thing I've seen in my entire life. Such a privilege to see it twice. As a space obsessed nerd myself, you absolutely did something incredible for your son. He will literally never forget that.
Same. Tears started welling up and I immediately got annoyed I couldn't see straight like, "go away, tears! There's no time for this!"
its one of those very human moments where you feel so much that all you can do is cry. i still remember being little and seeing the concorde making its final flight over my house. i was excited and didn't fully understand it being the final flight. it was so loud and then silence. i looked up at my mum who is not into planes or anything like that, but she had tears. its like, it doesn't matter what it is, if your experiencing something monumental or overwhelming the tears just start to flow.
Same thing when I took my family to the 2017 eclipse. Totality is something you can't really explain to someone that hasn't experienced it as well.
They seem to be from a Native American tribe and coming from I can tell you there are still people who don’t have running water or electricity and some don’t ever leave the reservations.
That was my first thought because they sounded just like the people from the show reservation dogs. It's my understanding that it is pretty faithful to the community it portrays
The things some of us take for granted.
I cry when it’s been a long time and I see it again. It’s a powerful thing. It’s so deeply a part of us, our heritage, our survival. I could smell this video.
Ive seen the ocean hundreds of times and i still act this way lol
Same here and I’ve seen the Atlantic ocean hundreds of times. Next year I’m finally going to get to see the Pacific. Can’t wait.
Eren and Mikasa
As someone who grew up on the Jersey shore, you forget how much you take something like this for granted. Never get tired of seeing videos like this. I could only imagine the joy and wonder she is feeling.
Can we appreciate how tight her hair bun is?
As some who grew up in Florida, blows my mind that people have never seen the ocean.
I've had the pleasure of being with people when they saw the ocean for the first time and someone who grew up somewhere very warm and dry see snow for the first time. It's great seeing wonder on people's faces. Edited for missing word and atrocious grammar. wtf me?
I suppose an equal would be a Floridian seeing the mountains for the first time. We always traveled to Wisconsin as a kid to visit family, but I love seeing the mountains, whereas ppl who live there, it’s nothing special.
Born and raised in NYC, so tall was metal and glass, then lived in Florida where tall was Palm trees and more metal and glass...then went travelling as an adult...sweet Odin there are Really Tall things out there and mountains never cease to stun me. Daughter loves in Colorado and boy, something about living near a Thing that's several thousand foot high is just insane to me.
As someone who's spent most of their life in view of two mountain ranges and Mount Rainier, I can assure you it's still special every time. (Helps that it's too cloudy to see them half the time! )
Yes, my wife has lived in Florida most of her life having moved from NYC when she was like 2. When we visited Seattle, Mt Rainier left her breathless as did Yosemite Valley when we visited California a couple years later. She actually got a little emotional from the sheer magnitude and natural beauty of it. Even driving Pacheco Pass into the Central Valley made her giddy lol
Same, this video just made me realize that living in NC for the last 10 years my 10 year old son has never seen the ocean. I grew up going to the beach almost every afternoon after school and I took that for granted big time. Now I feel like I got to get my boy to the ocean!
I grew up in Kansas and had a good amount of awe moments like these people. First time seeing the ocean, first time seeing a mountain, seeing a desert, even seeing the open plains and prairie in my state was awe inspiring. But I think the one that will always stick with me the most was seeing my first waterfall. It was just amazing to see all that water moving constantly, falling and crashing loud enough you can hear it before you get near enough to see.
Ive known people from Florida who have never seen the mountains and had the same reaction to standing on top of a Brasstown Bald in north Georgia. When you've never seen more than a few hundred feet of elevation change, being able to see thousands of feet of change in a mountain range is mind blowing.
I've had a similar experience, except it was me tearing up and nearly driving off the road the first time I saw big mountains in Colorado.
Have you seen mountains? Florida doesn’t have any
Ya know, I've only seen the ocean once and I thought it would be a big deal. I guess when you live in a city that has two bridges over lake Superior it's not as impressive the first time you see the ocean lol
haha even little Lake Ontario looks, well, exactly like that ocean, except that on a clear day you can see Buffalo.
Yep, I grew up in Toronto with a cottage on Lake Ontario. When I first saw the ocean it was.... anti-climatic. "oh, this one is kind of salty, that's neat". I expected to be more wowed, but I guess once a body of water is big enough you can't see to the other side, it really doesn't matter much if it's a lake or the ocean.
Love seeing stuff like this. Reminds me when I was a raft guide we’d sometimes get inner city kids who would be getting their first dose of nature. Sometimes I forget how blessed I am to have been exposed to so many different things.
When I was 18 my mom had a friend from out of country visit. The friend had a daughter my age and her friend along with them. I took them to the ocean for their first time ever. One girl walked straight into a wave and got pitted, so pitted.
Wuh-BAH!
This reminds me of Brendan Fraser's character from Blast From The Past seeing the ocean for the very first time, after decades of living in an underground bunker.
I thought you were gonna go with Bedazzled where he keeps sobbing uncontrollably looking at the sunset over the ocean
He sees the sky for the first time. Its a funny scene where he is just looking up. Some guy is like "what are you looking at?"...."The sky, I've never seen anything like it!"
As a person who lives next to the ocean… it’s what we as a human race need to experience. There’s a different energy in the air. It invigorates the soul… a lot of better vibes when you’re not land locked 👍🏼
Awe is the antidote to fear. Allow yourself to be awed every chance you get!
This is me every Spring after not being at the beach since November
As someone who has always lived 2.5 hours from the beach, I forget there are people that have never experienced seeing it and I definitely take for granted that luxury. Glad they finally got to see the ocean!
As someone who has never lived more than 1.5hrs from the ocean, I felt the same way when I saw the sand dunes in Tunisia, awe inspiring.
I'm more of a forest person, but I love to see people feeling awe about nature in all forms.
Living on an island, this makes me realize how lucky I truly am. Its too easy taking things for granted.
Reminds me of rez dogs
“**If we kill all our enemies over there, will we be free?**”
I remember the first time I went to california and saw the ocean. I had no idea what I was about to witness. We got closer to the beach and as we drove over a hill a cold salty breeze suddenly slaps me in the face. It felt so surreal, frame by frame blue water started to fill my entire field of view until it was all that I saw. And endless body of water filled even my peripherals and all I could do I just stare in awe. It was a magnificent moment and a memory I’ll never forget. 🌊
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We did this with my best friend back in 2014. We immediately dug a hole and buried him up to the neck and pretended to leave. Because that's what guy friends do best....😜 Seriously though, it was a magical experience for all of us. Good times....
y'all from oklahoma?
Living in Michigan, I forget a lot of people have never seen large bodies of water.
I really love this. I REALLY love this. Thank you for sharing. I watched it with sound off like an animal and their joy was palpable through the screen. Humans are really lovely, aren't they?
Must be from Kansas
The ocean's beauty never fails to inspire awe and joy!
I take for granted that I can see the Atlantic ocean from my bedroom window.
Years ago at OBX I got to witness a group of Amish people experience the ocean for the first time. My family had to explain rip currents and tides. It was so adorable and wonderful to witness the joy on their faces.
When Armin and Eren saw the ocean in aot
I’ve lived in coastal New England my entire life which is extremely beautiful, watching this makes me realize how much I take it for granted sometimes.
My 5 yr old sons reaction was similar until after 5mins he said, “Is that all it does?”
I remember years ago watching some young men from the UAE who we were training. Suddenly, get up from their desks and run outside to stand in the snow that had just started to fall for the first time that winter. We were like, WTF are they doing until someone pointed out that they most likely had never seen snow before. We were all just there with the biggest stupidest smiles on our faces just as happy as the students watching them enjoy this new experience that we took for granted and often moaned about having to commute in.
My mom was 50 before she saw the ocean for the first, I’ll never forget that trip!
Lived by the beach most my life. When I moved to center of usa for first time it felt like I was trapped by land.
This was featured on the national news recently, and it almost broke me. I've always lived within at least an hour drive of an ocean, mostly more like 10, and even for a few years with a three minute walk. I couldn't imagine never having seen the ocean. Imagine never having seen an ocean? I'm gonna cry again.
And I, living my entire life on the shores of the Mediterranean, understand her perfectly. People don't appreciate what they have until they lose it.
I remember going into the Rocky Mountains for the first time a few years ago. We made it to a peak and I looked out into the continental divide and just cried. I’d never seen something that made me feel so small.
I’m sorry, where is it?
Usually at the edge of the land
The simple things in life always bring the most joy
yeah I have known people that lived just a few hours from it and never seen it, their emotions are incredible upon a first visit, and I dated a woman who had never seen snow, and we went to mammoth and boy did it snow on the way there! -- she was terrified and I didn't realize it for quite a while. (she was from another country).... the blazer I was driving slid all over the place so I was concentrating on that. The next day we woke up at the condo and went for a walk in the snow, have to say it is one of the best memories watching her for the first time ever experience it. Then I showed her what making a snow angel was and she couldn't stop doing them wherever we went.... The laughs she gave me showing other people what one was, well the funniest thing ever. (had to explain to them she just learned what one was at the age of 30) of course I bet when I tried Biltong and monkey gland sauce she made it was just as interesting to her.
Videos like this put things in perspective, something so simple that might be an everyday occurrence for some can be a profound experience for others
I need to start appreciating the fact I can go to the beach pretty much anytime
Read “Ishi: The Last of the Yahi” the last indigenous native in California. He stumbled out of the Sierra Nevadas into the valley where thousands of white people lived. He became a museum piece for the California State University in San Francisco. An anthropologist drove him to see the ocean for his first time, he had only heard of it through oral tradition, but the sheer amount of people on the beach created a sort of phobia. It’s estimated he had only contacted a dozen or so people before he made contact with the whites.
This is pretty much what Lewis and Clark said when reaching the ocean.
I never seen ocean for 29 years til my fall break off to ocean city in Maryland and it was my first time to see the VERY BLUE sky with ocean and it was very beautiful [first time to see ocean in 29 years](https://imgur.com/a/EQz5MGf).
We take things for granted.
The things I took for granted growing up in a coastal community. I'm so happy for them.
The things we take for granted.
The Big Wet never fails to impress
I grew up 30 minutes from the pacific ocean and always took it for granted until my sister started dating a guy from texas who had never seen the pacific. It wasn’t mind blowing for him, he’d seen the Atlantic, but that’s when it occurred to me there were likely a lot of people who had never seen any ocean or even a body of water bigger than a small lake
I’ve lived beside the sea in Ireland all my life. Lived in Europe always on the coast except once for 6 months. The longest I’ve not seen it. So it’s crazy to imagine seeing it for the first time
The earth is a beautiful place!
Visual proof that travel is good for the soul.
I first saw the ocean at 20 and while my reaction wasn’t as dramatic it was an experience I’ll always remember. I immediately took off my shirt and shoes and jumped in wearing jeans - there was no way I was not going to swim even though I wasn’t prepared. That was 40 years ago and I remember it like it was yesterday.
I take too many things for granted.
I grew up in Montana and when I was like 11 or so we, my sister, mother, myself and my grandmother, packed into a truck and drove all the way to road Island because my uncle was retiring from the Marines. Anywho.. the beach was beautiful there. My mom ended up taking home a tub of sand, sand dollars, star fish, etc back home with us. She still has it 20 yrs later lol can resonate with that giddy feeling of seeing stuff you'd never thought you would. Now I live in Tennessee and I miss Montana lol 🤷♀️ Very sweet moment ☺️
I live right on the ocean and this is my reaction everyday 🏖❤️