Yesterday’s engagement session was postponed due to the weather.. but it freed up my afternoon to
hang out in Seaside and enjoy the area, something which I need to do more often!!
While sitting on the beach, I grabbed this picture with my phone.. and as I watched the waves come and go along the shore line, I thought… the beach, the water, the gulf… is a metaphor for life’s ever changing nature.
Sometimes the water… like life… is calm, smooth, flat and tranquil, other days it’s turbulent, tumbling and even dangerous, some days the water is clear and your visibility is good… you can see confidently far ahead.
Other days the water can be murky and full of seaweed and obstacles and you can barely see 2 feet in front of you.
The beach.. the land…. represents ourselves, our bodies… and the water is life’s circumstances pressing against us constantly, unrelentingly… representing life’s ups and downs. Sometimes the water, like life is calm and relaxed and we can see far ahead and our vision is clear and perhaps we may consider our lives a little dull and uneventful… while other times it/life is exciting and rough, even scary because our sight and our vision is limited..
Our lives, like the gulf.. the ocean.. the sea… is ever changing, we must whether it’s ups and downs and know that nothing stays the same, that we should not attach ourselves to the calm and peaceful even boring days, just as we cannot attach or hold onto the turbulent, difficult days as well… for they will be gone just as soon as we get used to them.
I should have taken a picture of the water and the various reflections of color I saw as I was sitting there with my feet in the sand… but I did shoot this picture. 🙂
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