the beach...

18 years back, you would always see me hangin by the beach with my sisters and cousins...we would always play there, catch some jelly fish during low tide, build some sand castle, collect starfishes, play "tag-tagan", swim of course...it was really fun! i remember one time when i almost drowned myself when i lost my hold on the small paddled banca that was pulling us around the sea as we were playing with my cousins, i gulped alot of water, i couldn't breathe, and i couldn't swim at all...i was struggling to catch the paddle from the banca so i could save myself. unfortunately, i couldn't remember what happened next and how i survived. it was supposed to be a traumatic experience for a five-year-old-kid, but, as if it was just nothing, and it didnt scare me at all...i still loved the water! and i loved to swim! just a trivia, i grew in a house just a few steps to the sea. before the beach, there's a small garden with a small portion in the middle covered with bermuda grass, some coconut trees, san-francisco plant, santan, calachuchi, some orchids, talisay tree, as i remember it being planted in their by my favorite lola...surrounding the garden are native cottages built in nipa and kawayan wherein guests could stay and enjoy the scenery...hmm,, seems a nice place huh, actually, i'm just exaggerating, hehe!...going back, that's the kind of environment where i grew!...years past...i thought i already hate it...the sticky feeling after you've immersed youself in the water...the sultry feeling of air and the pricking effect of sun to your skin...eeeww!...it was already like that until we had our vacation in galera...just then that i realized i missssed the beach so much...!its something that i cannot get out of my system...its some place that i would be always craving to be into...i love the whispers of the air as it pass through my ears...the relaxing sound of the waves...the smooth sand that touches my feet as i walk by the seashore...just now that i imagined my self in an island...a white sand-island perhaps...tranquil, relaxing place...away from the office...away from pressure...away from people who's always rushing into something...away from any burden...away from a place with so many arguments, fault-finding, dirty tricks and allegations (perhaps im talking about our government, whatelse?)...just want to find time for myself...where i could relax ... in the true sense of the word...i could rest...think and reflect...just myself...or perhaps with someone who would enjoy the same thing...how i wish....its now...or soon...