Memories, too, grant us many lives. When we walk, when we meditate, when we are one with nature, we are not just in the present moment—we are the culmination of all that we have been. The sounds of the ocean center us, yet within each wave is an echo of every moment we have lived, each step a whisper of the past merging seamlessly with now.
The sand is hard packed and cool beneath my feet, a soft contrast to the warmth of the morning light just beginning to touch the horizon. The ocean murmurs, a ceaseless rhythm, steady, ancient, alive. Waves roll in, stretching long fingers across the shore, then slipping back into themselves, dissolving, returning. The tide breathes. So do I.
A breeze moves through me, salty and light, stirring the mist that lingers like a veil between this world and something deeper. It carries the distant cry of a seagull, the whisper of unseen wings overhead. I walk, slowly, deliberately. The footprints I leave behind are quickly softened by the tide’s touch, as if they never existed at all. The past is quiet.
The sky shifts—soft gold dissolving into pale blue, the clouds drifting, unhurried. A lone figure stands at the water’s edge, gazing out as if searching for something beyond sight. Perhaps they are lost in thought, or maybe, like me, they have surrendered to this moment. No searching, no grasping, just being. Just the sea and sky, breath and movement, the hush of something infinite.
I close my eyes for a moment, listening. The rhythmic pulse of the surf, the sigh of the wind, the gentle hush of sand shifting underfoot. No past, no future. Just this. The hush of the earth meeting the ocean. The quiet miracle of existing.
Peace is not something I reach for—it is already here. I walk, and the world walks with me.
~Wylddane