Sometimes, we want to go back to a more innocent time - a time when we were pure and our hearts unsullied. But we feel we can't break the mold we're stuck in. Hopelessness is the feeling that things are forever frozen in stone. The world was then a world of water.
Water is the ultimate symbol of matter without form.
It can take any shape at all. It waits for the vessel that holds it to give it shape, to give it true purpose. There are times when we lose contact with our true purpose. Times when the form that we have made for ourselves is not what the Creator intended. We have become sealed and unresponsive to spiritual reality.