Sunday 15 June 2008

A day to the seaside

Life is like a trip to the seaside on a sunday...
You wake up in the morning and walk to the seaside, and all you think about is reaching it, cause you think it's the place you want to go at the moment. You have to walk for a hundred yards and you have to stop frequently to let the cars go by and cross the street. Like at school: exams are a sort of barrier to cross to reach the last goal: reaching the sea, ending the education and get to the adult age. You have a bag with you: with a paddle and a bucket to build up your own sand castle, and loads of other toys.
Eventually you get to the sea.
And there you go: it's already 12 and the sun is freakin'burning...
You've never been to the sea before: you wouldn't imagine it to be so huge: everything's blue in front of you. It's nearly scary... And now? What should you do?
It's a bad moment when you reach the adult age, you get your degree and kicked out in the world of work. The sea's so huge. You've always been sorrounded by houses and walls, with small steps to do one after the other, one at time. Now everything's free and there's a lot of space, but your eyes refuse to see: what should I do with all that space?
Some people now are laying down at the sun: they're lucky, they can live their day without doing anything. But you're a honest guy and you're going to call the people that are coming to the shore with a boat. They are fishers and they'll give you some hard work for today and some money too.
They come closer, you hail loud them to get the attention, and after a few words they'll get you: you're on for today.
You throw your bag: the toys, the bucket, the sand castle: there's no time for it anymore. Bye bye toys. You jump on the boat.
From now on you have to face the infinities of the seas. From now on you can decide. You can keep on fishing with these guys or trying to get to a bigger one and sea another sea.
What will happen next?
Probably they'll get you to the shore, you'll be old and your face wrinkled, your hands marked by fatigue and the salt of the sea. They'll get you to the shore and they'll give you a few of the food you fished together with them: will be enough for today, cause the day is nearly gone, sun's setting and you'll have some time to rest on the seaside.
Maybe you'll even find your toys. But you forgot how to build a sand castle.
Sun's down, it's getting cold, too cold.
And that's how your life ended, that's how your day to the seaside went.

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