Autumn Cleanse

I take the same walk almost everyday. Ok lets rephrase that, I take the same walk almost everyday weather permitting, and yes I do know there is no such thing as bad weather just bad clothing. However, in my little corner of the world, mornings can be quite dark and dismal and I kind of value my life more than to be out walking alone on dark mornings.

Anyhow, my walk takes me along a road that leads to a secluded little beach. Although that journey is the same pathway day after day, it is never monotonous. For me that journey every day of the year is so different.

The people I meet, the changing seasons, the smell of the ocean, the spray of the waves, the texture of the sand, the sound of the waves crashing on the beach, the sound of the pebbles and shells rushing back into the tide, the sunrise or the sun setting it is all so uniquely different.

Each day I turn that corner and see that scene, my mind is taken to a new chapter, its almost as though I turn the page in a book and the illustration draws me into the next adventure, none more so than today. Today‘s chapter may have been inspired by that scene but it was truly a breath taking moment, perhaps some of us might call it an epiphany.

Today the ocean was rough, almost angry. She was not kissing the beach as she rolled in it was more of a thunderous pounce. She crashed violently on to the beach, the pebbles and shells were hidden under mounds of sea kelp buried, or were they just hiding from the tempestuous waves. The ocean spray was being lifted high in to the air, I could feel the salt from the spray as it kissed my lips. The sand lifting into my hair as the breeze lifted it swirling and dancing to its own tune.

Although I found the scene truly mesmerising, I suddenly found myself thinking that even the ocean has an Autumn Cleanse.

The ocean often reminds me of my own life and temperament , she doesn’t vocalise but you can still tell how her mood is and today is no different.

Just as we must prepare for the winter of our life so does the ocean. We are truly in the Autumn season and no matter what we do winter is coming.

It is time to prepare, time for reflection, time to declutter our minds, our bodies and our souls of everything that does not serve us, my lesson from the ocean today was that she left behind the sea kelp, it is no longer serving her, it is time to make space for the coming season. As we look around us it is not just the ocean that speaks of this cleansing , even the trees and the earth declutter and cleanse in prepation for the coming season.

Just as we too must prepare. Our lives have had many cchanges in the last five years, changes and challenges out of our control, life will never be the same as it was before but it is not meant to be, life changes, every generation has a new story to tell, a new legacy to leave for the coming generations. We are no different. This is our time. This is our Autumn, this is our time of preparation, our time of planning our next chapter.

The story of our lives will be written regardless of our actions, wouldn’t you prefer to be the writer rather than the reader?

xx Lei

DIFFICULT ROADS LEAD TO BEAUTIFUL DESTINATIONS. - Anon