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I sit on the beach, staring out at the sea. The waves ferociously crash into the shore and advance on me, losing momentum quickly before softly rushing over my bare toes. Each wave coming and going with a rhythm that matches the beating of my heart. The air is thick with salt, and the wind dances through my hair, wild and untamed. The sea calls to me, always. I think of my father here, lost to these waves when I was just a baby. He lived and died by the ocean, his life woven into its rhythm. I don?t remember him much, but his absence fills the spaces in our small home, the quiet spaces where words aren?t enough to explain the grief. I used to fear the sea for what it took from my mother and I. Now, I feel it differently. I can sense its pull deep within me, like it is part of my blood, part of my breath. It?s not just the waves I feel?I feel something more. The energy that flows through everything. I can feel the flow of the sea, the wind, the earth, everything beneath me. It moves, it shifts, it connects. The more I come here, the more I understand. Qi doesn?t only flow through people?it moves through the earth, the sky, the water. It?s in the land and the sea, swirling together in a great dance, in a constant ebb and flow. It?s in the way the waves crash and recede, in the way the trees bend with the wind. It?s in everything, and it flows through me, too, when I sit here, letting the world breathe with me. The wind brushes against my skin, carrying its own pulse, and I can feel it- fully feel it. My body aligns with the rhythm of the world, and I understand that my father didn?t just vanish. He became part of this flow. His energy, his flow, is now woven into the tides, the winds, the very earth on which I sit. The grief I once felt has softened. I no longer feel like he's been taken from me- he's simply become part of the great flow of energy that binds everything together. Life and death, the land and the sea, are all connected, all flowing in the same rhythm, and I am a part of it. I breathe in deeply and exhale. As I do, I feel the energy of the world around me. I feel him in the qi that connects everything. The sea, the sky, the earth?they are all one. <b>And so am I. | |