There's Time
By purplehaze
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Saturday was chilly-sunny and at first, super calm. As if time had stopped, before turning back. Started the Virginia Woolf walk. Saw three ships, smell of fox at the castle grounds. The sea was well contented, gently folding pure white crests, like egg white into soufflé.
One of the things I noticed since stopping work life, is the tendency to rush. Mostly in thoughts, or that’s where it starts. All the ‘have to’s’, the ‘to do’s’. Working life is like that. Be there by this time, lunch at that time, home later than you’d like. In that sunny-chilly Saturday moment, mesmerised by slowly cresting waves, saw a fishing boat heading for shore. Instantly, thoughts raced from peace to ‘have to’. ‘Can I reach the lighthouse before the catch is landed?’ Obviously, I did, as was a few hundred yards from the pier, not a nautical mile out to sea.
There is a third act thought that hits hard, and out of the blue – ‘Will I have time?’ To live, to do the things I thought I would do when work life was over. It’s not a thought that seas or clocks or nautical miles have to consider. Sitting on the lighthouse step, time slowed right down, in laconic waves.
There's time.
We turn back time on a calendar day, but really there are only moments. Sun-filled chilly sea-calmed moments.
Amen to them.
The day changed, the wind got up, cajoling, ‘Make good use of your moments then!’ The waves joined in, racing towards the shore. Spindrift waves, casting off rainbows into the blue. Sea birds and crows gathered on sandbanks, splashing a bath where the salt meets the sweet. There is a time for racing, and a time to stand still.
All in the balance, I suppose.
Believe.
There’s time.
Images for this journal have been posted on Insta @purplehaze_journal
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particularly beautiful images
particularly beautiful images today - thank you!
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The balance is a dance I've
The balance is a dance I've yet to master but the worry of 'will there be time' has already become an earworm I try hard to ignore.
I agree with Insert- there are beautiful images in this but what drew me in was the optimism...
'believe...there's time'. and so I will.
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