Serendipity

I love to take walks… especially on the beach back home whenever I
can. It gives me respite from all the humdrum of daily life. Sometimes
my mind would float away and I’ll never realize the distance I’ve
traversed. One thing I have noticed back then… I was alone… I didn’t
know what its like to walk with someone. Have someone to share the
beach, wading to ankle deep surf, making sand castles. I don’t know a
thing about those. But I was curious though, because there were
times you’ll feel all alone, although you’ll pass people by… have a chat
or two and then move on. At one point or another they will be gone.
Some of them are walking the opposite direction, some walking slower
that you’ll pass them by and others are just too fast for you to catch
up. We seldom take the time to slow down or stop at people on our
walks t exchange a few kind words or maybe have coffee or tea, share
a meal perhaps. We are too preoccupied by a lot of things… sadly
most of the time it’s the things that money can buy or source of.
Looking back I have seen that I too have been guilty of such things but
I also see the time I took the time to have a chat with someone. It was
touch and go at first trying to match our pace. Trying to keep
someone… sometimes you have to slow down if it seems you’re too
fast for them or speeding up if you think you’re falling back. It was nice
to have those walks with someone… someone to talk to, laugh at your
jokes, to criticize you if you’re being stubborn or just to be there…
Now I look beside me… I have two people walking with me, the same
one I was trying to keep pace with a long time ago and now she gave
me a beautiful daughter. That someone I’ve met on walks a long time
ago… is you.

Few things in life can be expected. We just have to prepare ourselves. Remember that
for every sorrow… there is joy…for every suffering… there is compassion… for every 
darkness… there is light. It is the circle of life and life must go on… it’s too precious to 
keep on hold. This September, look through the western horizon in the afternoon and 
watch the sunset. For each sunset in your life, for all the darkness it brings, all the 
suffering is a journey that has an end. It comes as the first rays of light break through 
the horizon bathing the clouds…feeling the warmth as the rays touches your face, 
there is a sense of hope and joy… another chance… another sunrise in September.

Wind… take my heart… and take it to my love…. so distant. with your gentle breeze,

let her feel my touch, my embrace. let her know distances are irrelevant…