I ended up at the shore on Sunday. The ocean was calm and the beach was empty. It was almost as if I wasn't supposed to be there. I walked the shoreline, thinking about how crowded this same spot was just a few short months ago. The sun seekers and the swimmers are gone and this place is much more beautiful in the stillness.
I find myself craving these experiences...the ones that people prefer not to have...the beach when it isn't summer...the trails in the winter time. In our every day lives we are surrounded by a multitude of stimuli. It's refreshing to be in a situation where the only thing you can hear is the sound of the waves crashing on the shore or the sound of your footsteps on the dry, fallen leaves.
"If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are—if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time." - Joseph Campbell
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