It is amazing how the ocean can have so
many faces, so many colors, but always the same sense of immensity, power, strength…
why was that as she had gotten older the fear had taken away the peace from the
sea? She remembered the days when as a child the sole idea of the visit to the
beach was pure pleasure. Even when the water was so cold you could hardly get
in for short periods of time without feeling how your body would loose control
and it would tremble and shiver claiming to be wrapped in blankets to warm up
again.
Now her family would be taking a trip to
go sailing and she would not join them because she knew it was a little scary,
or may be a lot for her to handle.
Her limitations were very clear now, her
lack of confidence as she was trying to deal with life constantly shouting
please oh please, rescue me…
I don’t know why or where that is the
tracks of one life get some how mix with fear, is it when the dreams and the
reality meet? Do they ever meet? Is it when your hand looses its grip from that
steady rock that was holding you? Is it when we meet our own mortality?
These days were very peaceful, much quit,
very lonely. She had chosen them, and she was ok with them. The times that she
shared with her relatives were full of discovery, a view of a family ran by a
single mother, strong but not. One has to be strong to survive our own decisions,
to face our consequences. Yet there is always that counterpart, the one that
some how makes us weak and keeps us down, in touch with our own insecurities,
our limitations.
A sudden desire to feel that sand, to let
that cold water touch her feet, made her untied her shoes, brake the silence,
and start to run.
She was free, and she really knew that her
freedom did not mean loneliness, her freedom this time meant peace.