Tuesday 28 April 2020 / 2 Weeks Lock Down Extension

Life is a Beach

Vanishing Liberties

This experience has seemingly taken away many of our liberties. Life is a beach and then you die?

What will be amongst the first things we do once we are unbridled?

For me, one of the things on top of the list includes a long walk on the beach … potentially along with the rest of the country with our tailored masks, monitored by drone police to observe strict social distancing. In Fishoek these would probably include matriarchs peering out their windows with sniper binoculars. I might need to find a more secluded beach.

Longing for that walk on the beach, It is interesting though how we can spend a substantial amount of our lives longing for the next moment. Literally wishing our lives away. Even worse is living in regret for from previous moments. Life is a beach and then you die, as you get pummeled by wave after wave.

Remaining Present

I need to practice being more present. It’s all about perspective right? Perhaps life is a series of moments, like the frames on a film strip or a stop animation. The energy I bring to it is like the light shining through, projecting it onto the film screen called my life. One tends to get carried away with the drama of the story, forgetting that I am the director of this production. My experience of it depends on my association with this moment.

I might be confined to my quarters, but in my mind I am still free. Life is a beach, full of embrace. The ocean is vast and mysterious, I will never know her completeness, her dark depths, her numerous currents. But the ocean of life in all her magnitude breaks upon my beach. I am humbled by this.