What I learnt from watching the beach!

I have long been an avid fan of observing nature and all its wondrous gifts and insight it provides on how to live a great life…if we allow it to.

Just recently on a wonderful summer break in a beautiful place called Venus Bay, I learnt a lot from the beach! In fact more accurately said I learnt this from my wife Silvana’s observation of the beach! She said that every night as the tide comes in it resets and cancels every footstep, holes dug and sand castles from the day.

Every day it resets!!! Everyday begins anew completely uninfluenced from the day before. The beach doesn’t have an ego that produces regretful thoughts. For example, it doesn’t say, “oh but these were special sand castles that only my sons could make!!” The beach doesn’t have an opinion, it just continues to be what it is.

It doesn’t hold onto to anything from the day before, no matter how ‘special’ or how ordinary.

Every day this beach was different. Some days the waves were wild, other days calmer and other days completely unpredictable. Either way, every day was a reset.

What if in 2021 we decided to live like a beach. Continually letting go of the ups and downs of previous days, facing each day anew, each day will be different. “Well, that is easy for the beach because it doesn’t have a mortgage, or responsibilities and so on!”

The beach didn’t teach me to relinquish my everyday obligations and responsibilities…..it taught me to enjoy each day as fresh day, without any attachment to how bad or great the previous day was!

Loving the simplicity….thank you, with love Joe.