House of Sand and Waves
I've recently thought about this: we build our hopes, dreams, relationships, and so much more on such weak foundations that in a moment they are gone. I have also thought about this: sometimes its not a matter of foundation that make the things we care about disappear, its a matter of the structure or nature...whether we protect them from the elements of destruction.
In school, they tell you that water is the most destructive force on the planet. In all three forms that water takes on, it can move mountains, split Continents, or even split a desert in half. It can carve images in the most impermeable rock there is. It can form Hurricanes and other whether patterns. Water can even rush upon land and destroy entire nations! I think forces against the things we want out of life are like water. They can seem so tame and innocent but little by little can destroy the very part of you that matters most; they can do it even in an instant. However, knowing all of this we still tend to make our dreams, goals, and relationships out of sand. Do we know that these things can be snatched away from us?Yes.
A little stream of water is constantly eroding the earth beneath or on the side of it. Why don't we see the things that are so small, that are eating away at everything we want or have? Time is often like water....distance apart from someone can cause erosion. Its ofetn hard to build a friendship back to the way it was when so much time has past. Although pretty the flowing of water is constantly eating away at something.
For the past three weeks i have been dealing with a friendship that time is eroding; that is time unspent. I have been slowly but surely backing away and letting the person have there space because its what they want. As much as i try to spend time with this person...there is always a reason why we can't. Soon enough, the enibitable will happen. When water passes over a stone for however long it takes, it will eventually erode the stone into nothing. Soon you won't even see it.
Sometimes friendships or whatever you want to liken this too in your life, is built out of sand on the beach. You have to be careful to build it in such a way that it wont get damaged; that the waves wont over take it. If you build it to high on the beach you're left thinking that all will be well and will leave it thinking there is no need to tend to it. Sometimes we must build close to the sea in order to refine the things that need it or to see if its something that supposed to last. But we must be people who know when the rebuild when its damaged or when to let it go out to sea; when to let the water take it.
Yes, it is always better to build a castle on the beach with someone....who knows what one might bring to it. But if one walks away and leaves the other to defend and cultivate it....then the pressures and stress of keeping it up might be more destructive than the oceans waves.
Sand and water and a million year gone by.
In school, they tell you that water is the most destructive force on the planet. In all three forms that water takes on, it can move mountains, split Continents, or even split a desert in half. It can carve images in the most impermeable rock there is. It can form Hurricanes and other whether patterns. Water can even rush upon land and destroy entire nations! I think forces against the things we want out of life are like water. They can seem so tame and innocent but little by little can destroy the very part of you that matters most; they can do it even in an instant. However, knowing all of this we still tend to make our dreams, goals, and relationships out of sand. Do we know that these things can be snatched away from us?Yes.
A little stream of water is constantly eroding the earth beneath or on the side of it. Why don't we see the things that are so small, that are eating away at everything we want or have? Time is often like water....distance apart from someone can cause erosion. Its ofetn hard to build a friendship back to the way it was when so much time has past. Although pretty the flowing of water is constantly eating away at something.
For the past three weeks i have been dealing with a friendship that time is eroding; that is time unspent. I have been slowly but surely backing away and letting the person have there space because its what they want. As much as i try to spend time with this person...there is always a reason why we can't. Soon enough, the enibitable will happen. When water passes over a stone for however long it takes, it will eventually erode the stone into nothing. Soon you won't even see it.
Sometimes friendships or whatever you want to liken this too in your life, is built out of sand on the beach. You have to be careful to build it in such a way that it wont get damaged; that the waves wont over take it. If you build it to high on the beach you're left thinking that all will be well and will leave it thinking there is no need to tend to it. Sometimes we must build close to the sea in order to refine the things that need it or to see if its something that supposed to last. But we must be people who know when the rebuild when its damaged or when to let it go out to sea; when to let the water take it.
Yes, it is always better to build a castle on the beach with someone....who knows what one might bring to it. But if one walks away and leaves the other to defend and cultivate it....then the pressures and stress of keeping it up might be more destructive than the oceans waves.
Sand and water and a million year gone by.