It is said that you are the person you always dream of becoming. My dream is to get to a shore and this one mirrors it.
"It was a bright noon and the sea was calm. Beyond the glittering and shimmering oceanic waves as far as my eyes could see, there was a horizon which was clear and buoyant. I was there on the deck of a white yacht which was moving against the wind cutting the waves which came in contact with her draft. Somewhere near the stern, a bit far away from me was my family enjoying the moment at sea. I was lounging around doing nothing listening to the squawking of the seagulls amidst a very lonely ocean. Every now and then this silence was broken with the cackling laughter of my children. They were running around the boat and at the farther end was my wife standing and looking into the sea. Somehow, the scene changed abruptly and I could feel water hitting at my feet. I, who had fallen into a deep slumber awoke to this unpleasant feeling and saw that the sky had turned dark there were dark, furious clouds threatening to hit the boat. The sea turned violent and was ready to consume us. The boat rocked incessantly while still trying to contain us. I crouched my way to the other end of the boat to get near my wife and kids. I reached them and we hugged each other in unison to ward off any force which was at work to tear us apart. The ocean had turned merciless and I sensed that her fury was not going to ebb any time soon. I gave a reassuring look to my family to make them feel that we would make it despite the fear that the ocean will somehow engulf us into its eternity. It then started raining and it rained like it had never before. We were without cover and without respite from the dreadful night. We called out to our Creator and asked Him of his mercy. Though mercy was yet to arrive, I heard the boat hit forcefully to some solid rock-like thing and the boat stopped with a thud.
The night passed away and so did the clouds and the perilous wrath of the ocean had subsided and returned to its lyrical silence again.
I opened my eyes and saw that the boat had hit a shore and wrecked and was not seaworthy any longer. My family remained unharmed and we still clung to each other. Away from the shore I could see people of that alien land busy with their lives. They were not looking at us as if we didn't exist or a boat wreck was a normal sight for them. I knew I had at last reached a place which though was alien would allow me shelter. We disembarked the boat and stepped our feet on this ground. I walked few steps and before moving ahead silently turned back to look at the wrecked boat and then at the vast ocean which was looking back to me in silence."
I opened my eyes as the journey of a dream was accomplished and I smiled that the ocean had given me a shore.
More often we may live our lives in shadows combating our own demons, but we know that there is no escape from the storms which we face and hope that our fate will provide us that one shore someday. Till then we dream of those shores provided we are ready to pass through the storms.
"It was a bright noon and the sea was calm. Beyond the glittering and shimmering oceanic waves as far as my eyes could see, there was a horizon which was clear and buoyant. I was there on the deck of a white yacht which was moving against the wind cutting the waves which came in contact with her draft. Somewhere near the stern, a bit far away from me was my family enjoying the moment at sea. I was lounging around doing nothing listening to the squawking of the seagulls amidst a very lonely ocean. Every now and then this silence was broken with the cackling laughter of my children. They were running around the boat and at the farther end was my wife standing and looking into the sea. Somehow, the scene changed abruptly and I could feel water hitting at my feet. I, who had fallen into a deep slumber awoke to this unpleasant feeling and saw that the sky had turned dark there were dark, furious clouds threatening to hit the boat. The sea turned violent and was ready to consume us. The boat rocked incessantly while still trying to contain us. I crouched my way to the other end of the boat to get near my wife and kids. I reached them and we hugged each other in unison to ward off any force which was at work to tear us apart. The ocean had turned merciless and I sensed that her fury was not going to ebb any time soon. I gave a reassuring look to my family to make them feel that we would make it despite the fear that the ocean will somehow engulf us into its eternity. It then started raining and it rained like it had never before. We were without cover and without respite from the dreadful night. We called out to our Creator and asked Him of his mercy. Though mercy was yet to arrive, I heard the boat hit forcefully to some solid rock-like thing and the boat stopped with a thud.
The night passed away and so did the clouds and the perilous wrath of the ocean had subsided and returned to its lyrical silence again.
I opened my eyes and saw that the boat had hit a shore and wrecked and was not seaworthy any longer. My family remained unharmed and we still clung to each other. Away from the shore I could see people of that alien land busy with their lives. They were not looking at us as if we didn't exist or a boat wreck was a normal sight for them. I knew I had at last reached a place which though was alien would allow me shelter. We disembarked the boat and stepped our feet on this ground. I walked few steps and before moving ahead silently turned back to look at the wrecked boat and then at the vast ocean which was looking back to me in silence."
I opened my eyes as the journey of a dream was accomplished and I smiled that the ocean had given me a shore.
More often we may live our lives in shadows combating our own demons, but we know that there is no escape from the storms which we face and hope that our fate will provide us that one shore someday. Till then we dream of those shores provided we are ready to pass through the storms.
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