RiDe It

"Life is like a wave, sometimes you just have to suck it up and catch it... then you'll have the time of your life."

I read this quote on the blackboard at Coffee Bean in Hermosa this morning while waiting for my drink to be made. I smiled and immediately I filed it on the "remember this for mysapce quotes" file in my brain and continued on my way.

As I sat on the strand, I asked myself a very thought provoking question, "What would my life look like if everything was as I wanted it to be?" Surprisingly, much of it is already the way I want it to be. I love having these pockets of time to spend at the beach, thinking about life, writing out my thoughts, smiling at strangers as if to acknowledge our shared love for living; stopping by the coffee shop before sitting down in front of the computer to sculpt into meaning the muddied thoughts I had scribbled onto paper that day; ending the evening around a BBQ with friends, laughing, eating, enjoying each other... enjoying life.

As I realized that today is a poignant reflection of how I'd like my life to be, I looked down and saw a perfectly shaped sea shell. Again I smiled, remembering the many hours I'd spend as a kid searching over the shore for shells. This is my life, and I love it.

A Reason to Recover

Sometimes it's hard to admit that we are not the best thing for another. To watch them go, to watch them accept someone else's love, to be built up by another is not an easy thing to swallow. And yet, when you do, it frees you. It allows you to see that if you weren't the best for them, they aren't the best for you. No bounds of lust can hold you to that, though it blind you momentarily. It's love, a selflessly true love, that enables one to let go. And maybe, just maybe, it's that same love which enables another to be let go.