One day at Jambiani Beach I got-up very early in the morning, went out in the dark to the seaside and waited for the sun rising over the ocean. Except for some fishermen and very few early risers I was the only one at the beach, being able to enjoy the sunrise in total stillness. When the sun came up behind some clouds and diving the horizon into this warm yellow and orange, reddish tone it was just amazing. A unique and steadily changing interplay of the colors of the sun, the water as well as the shapes of the clouds and those fishermen going to their boat… Do you know that feeling when you want to stop the march of time? When you just want to stay forever in a great moment of yours? Keeping the feeling of it forever and ever?
Something like that I felt this morning at the beach.
But firstly the sunrise is over faster than we assume and never comes back in exact that way and with that feelings and thoughts like this very morning; Secondly there comes the time we have to leave this moment behind and let it go to be open for the next one.
At first glance it seems to be a pitty not being able to keep those experiences, to repeat them as often as we like to or to pull them out later whenever we want to.
But there is not even one single moment in our life – good and beautiful or hard and unbearable – we can repeat. And I think that this one-time character makes moments, experiences and even life just to what it is – unique and beautiful.
Is the experience of this beautiful moment lost forever? If you ask me – No, for me definitely not. It has just changed its form. It stays with us as long as we want to as a beautiful memory which we can revive in our minds whenever we want to.
Accepting and understanding this natural cycle of change and decay, which is omnipresent in nature, helps me a lot to take the plunge of life. Isn’t it also very calming to know that nothing will ever be lost and always continuing in different forms?And vice versa… that things will never stay the same but transform in maybe something useful in the future? Just, like today’s moments are tomorrow’s memories….