friends and the beach💙🌊🐚

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”

Arundhati Roy, "The Cost of Living"

Whilst by the beach surrounded with cheerful friends, I looked around, and I was grounded and extremely humbled ~ I am loved. It may not be romantic love, the one we hear stories about growing up, and the one glorified by the media. It is the kind of love we get from our friends - our kindred spirits. It is quiet, sometimes. There are other times when it speaks volumes, and are there whenever we need advice on how to go on about "this life".

Above all, to watch. Too observe the things that go on around us. Be there. Be present. Stay silent and watchful. To carefully observe. That's what the seas do to me. I sit there by the shore. And watch. Learn from the waves - no matter how hard they crash, they always come back, and not give up.

🐚 PS, thanks Stevie and Joyish for your friendship! It means a lot. I hope this trip healed you as much as it did to my heart, dear friends.✨

c i a o 💙

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