Revisiting the Ocean

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nakari

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It’s been three years since the last Drop in the Ocean festival.

Three years is a pretty long time, and a lot of things and people have changed. But at the same time, three years is barely any time. The North Pacific and South Pacific have been friends for over a decade now, as sister feeders. Most of the people here won’t have been on NationStates for anywhere near that long. I wasn’t in the South Pacific even at the time of the original Drop in the Ocean festival, and missed out on that particular moment in history. I’m just a drop in the bigger ocean of the South Pacific - just one small part, but it takes a lot of small drops to make an ocean.

For another water related metaphor - there’s a saying that you can never step into the same river twice, because it’s always changing. The same applies to NationStates, and this festival in particular. The shape of the river might be the same, but we’ll always have new mixtures of people and activities. So it’s cool to have this festival again after three years, like revisiting a familiar river and dipping your feet in the water again, recognising some of the flowers growing over the bank and some of the ducks and swans, but with new plants and ever changing sunlight on the water and possibly ducklings.

We’re all drops in the ocean of greater NS history, no matter if we’re older or younger players, no matter where we’ve been or who we are. It’s the combination of all of us that makes a greater body. So come join us and enjoy!
 
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