For as long as I can remember, I have been fascinated by the sea. It has always inspired, calmed, revitalized, touched, and healed me. Inside and out. I can spend hours just watching it, smelling it, listening to it, tasting the salt, and feeling the water on my skin. For me, bathing in its waves is both a blessing and a connection to the beauty of creation. The fact that I now live by the “jadransko more” fills me with deepest gratitude and love every day.
But the sea not only touches my soul and caresses all my senses, on closer inspection it also teaches so many life analogies.
The sea is always in motion, it flows and changes constantly. It takes directions and yet knows no final destination, no yesterday and no tomorrow. It simply is.
The sea is changeable. It makes its way, changes color, has different depths and shows itself on the surface from smooth to spray.
Its waves can be both gentle and violent. Because the sea is connected to the cosmos, the moon, the tides, and meteorology. And yet it is also an element, which always remains water, no matter what weather it is exposed to.
Last but not least, the sea also shows us the importance of diversity and cooperation, as it is home to a multitude of life forms that all interact with each other in a complex ecosystem. It lives within itself and with all that is.
And how do we live?
Quite often against the natural laws of life. We like to resist the flow. We demand durability, consistency, and continuity from something whose nature is changeable and has many colors, phases and forms. We celebrate the high tide and fear the low tide. In doing so, we have forgotten to trust the tides of life, respect diversity and accept the movement of the waves.
Water can neither be bent nor broken. The sea cannot be mastered or controlled. It can only be experienced. But isn't that exactly what makes it so beautiful and magical? Perhaps we approach human life with precisely this fascination - and the awareness that we are always the water, not the weather ...
From the sea with lots of love,
Vanessa
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