Carried Away
I stood there once. On the edge of the ocean. Tasting salt water on my tongue and feeling the sun on my skin. I felt a yearning, then. Beside that great, endless sea. I felt as if a wave might come, and in one giant surge, swallow me whole. I stood there for a long time and tempted the ocean to carry me away. But, the ocean stopped each time before reaching me.
Salt lingered on my tongue long after I was gone from the waves, and long after I remembered the possibility of being carried away.
Salt lingered on my tongue long after I was gone from the waves, and long after I remembered the possibility of being carried away.
posted by Unknown at 12:38 AM
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I love the salt, I love the sea.... *Sigh* Beautiful Emily!
Well actually we are not going to be at the beach and I don't think we will have time to go to the beach...we will see I guess. :( But maybe I will still smell the salt? At least there will be palm trees! :)
Captivating...HIGHLY, HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommend it. Did I say highly? Almost everyone that I have known, who have read it, are like WOW. There have been a few that thought it was "ok"... I even recommend it to guys to read b/c I think it is very insightful.
Do you often find that, in a sort of microcosmic manner, if we take the "waves" of life, we are almost always anticipating the arrival of each new wave?
That is, if we're on the shore, watching the waves roll in and out, we are seemingly more drawn to the rolling in of a new wave rather than the rolling out of one just passed.
And, in terms of brain science, the "pleasure center" of the brain is insatiable. No matter how frequently you stimulate this area of the brain, it never quenches the desire for an additional stimulus.
And this is true for both men and women. What an odd phenomenon. So few things in this world are indiminishable. But, look in eternity, and won't you see examples of things that are done repeatedly that never "get old" (e.g. the angels singing "Holy, holy, holy...")?
What then does this suggest about pleasure, if anything? What does it suggest about waves and crests and comings and goings? How does time affect these very things?
So I didn't get to see the ocean.
:( BUT had a great time anyway.
I DID get to see your brother on TV....fun stuff! He is your only sibling right?
Christian, expound!
Yeah, I suppose I should expound. My mind went a lot of directions with this thought process, but my words didn't really cover it all. Maybe after work I'll do that.
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