I run every morning to the beach in search for a peaceful start to an uknown day. Life sets before us obstacles and challenges to face, giving us the strength either to decide on what is best for our own well being. I, on the other hand have prayed to some greater power than human, for guidance to be true and at peace with those I surround myself with and mostly for the strength to be true to myself. I run every morning at a speed as I am unstoppable, for the thoughts that race in my mind I wish to defeat and win. I run hard with passion in order to sigh the most ultimate relief of breath when I reach that sparkiling sea. I, am the one and only person that can determine the outcome of my day, my life and the path that lies unknown yet before me. As also and always, I am the one person that can heal and move forward with and only with time. With this new chapter of my life, I must say that I am truly grateful to be able to feel the love, beauty yet harsh and hurtful burden that has consumed my heart and mind. I can feel, be patient and understand each and every emotion that has challenged me to be stronger every minute I live on this beautiful earth. For what breaks us can also heal us and that is Love, for another, for life and most importantly for yourself. What must and always be healed in order for us as humans to live a full and purposeful life, we must forgive as well. Those that have hurt us and ourselves. At last, as I take one look along the sands of my beach, I close my eyes and breathe. I leave the beach, the waves they crash freely and the sun, how it warms me, only to inhale my gratitude that I am alive and forever in love, with life and the beauty it bestows around me. I run back at peace, with a smile.
Venice Beach Pier
January 2010
