A fish will always be the last to know about the existence of water.
Or as it goes in the form of a parable:
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says "Morning, boys. How's the water?" And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes "What the hell is water?"
The most obvious, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about. The split between two people, regardless of their facticity, comes from this fact - one realizes the reality of the connecting mediums of life better than the other. The oomph factor. Actions take on a more sincere form, and appear more meaningful, because there is also a conscious concern for these hard-to-see factors.
We all start finding a crisis in our lives sooner or later, because by the time we're into size 9 shoes (um, size 6 for the girls?), we have already learnt and practised the mundane things that constitute the framework of LIFE. Then things start to get boring, days seem endless, night lose their meaning, the novelty of seeing faces wears off. What about those more mature characters we see and praise and idolise? They come from the same background and learn the same framework, but they find the novelty of discovering the existence of their water.
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