Today I had an appointment and afterwards, to replenish my soul, I went to sit by the seaside to reflect and think things through!
Oh how beautiful it was!
There had been a couple of days of stormy weather so the sea was rough and wild - the waves were crashing and the wind howling a real breeze.
What was so amazingly wonderful was the huge piles of seaweed washed up on the shore...
some still coming in and going out with the movement of the tide.
A number of the piles of seaweed had huge stumps on the bottom and tree-like 'trunks',
some with one, two and even three - emerging from them!
They looked like giant plugs at the base and...
emerging from the tree-like 'trunks' were an array of tangled, wild and rambling 'branches'...
some thick...
some thin and...
others so fine that they looked like filigrees of hand-made lace.
Walking amongst this amazing spectacle,
whilst watching the waves crash onto the shore,
with the seagulls picking and scrambling amongst these washed-up giants,
I wondered!
I wondered where they had come from...
how majestically they must have looked in life with their forms floating upwards under the ocean and swaying in the currents!
What fish...
what creatures must have passed them by...
how old were they and...
what had they seen?
If they could talk what could they tell us?
If they could hear what would they have heard?
But...
sadly...
I would get nothing out of them as they lay on the beach,
their majesty and glory when in the water,
dulled and dying now that they were out on dry land.
But...
they still had a magnificent beauty and
I saw that beauty still...
I saw that beauty in WHAT they REPRESENTED to me!
What you might ask?
To me they represented the PLUGS...
the STOPPERS that we have within our lives!
The BASES upon where we often plant our feet and from there let our whole existence emerge and grow...
but, not in a healthy way!
For instead,
these PLUGS...
these STOPPERS...
bung-up and stunt who we really are...
they limit our being and deprive us of many things!
What are they you might ask?
sadness
anger
resentment
hatred
apathy and procrastination
regret
jealousy
even some people, and...
even some people, and...
so many many more things.
BUT...
these huge PLUGS or STOPPERS, with their tree-like 'trunks' and myriad of branches,
had been pulled up out of the seafloor,
where they had been born, lived their life, been 'fed' and 'grew'...
seemingly there forever!
these huge PLUGS or STOPPERS, with their tree-like 'trunks' and myriad of branches,
had been pulled up out of the seafloor,
where they had been born, lived their life, been 'fed' and 'grew'...
seemingly there forever!
NOW...
they were just lying there devoid of life as,
they had became lost in the wild and stormy sea,
just like we can be...!
Sometimes we get lost when we take a wrong turning,
we allow the PLUGS to bung-up all those good things open to us,
AND
we let them STOP our life from blossoming...
they were just lying there devoid of life as,
they had became lost in the wild and stormy sea,
just like we can be...!
Sometimes we get lost when we take a wrong turning,
we allow the PLUGS to bung-up all those good things open to us,
AND
we let them STOP our life from blossoming...
So my friends,
take a moment out of your busy life and look for those STOPPERS that keep YOU from growing into the most wonderful human being that you were meant to be!
Our life is a journey
and
it is up to us which path we take
and
what direction we move in.
We can be like a fern frond,
tightly rolled up and closed,
or...
we can open up to the good things in life.
Make up your mind...
you can DO IT!
regards Ruth
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