I was in DIRE need of some Vitamin Sea, so I booked some Vitamin Sea. The original plan was to go back to my Happy!Place for my Birthday later this month, but for some reason, it was basically fully booked and / or only expensive places to stay. Hrmph! So I simply went for a couple of days from July 31 to August 3, and y’all … it was much, much NEEDED!
Once I had checked into my hostel room, I couldn’t stop grinning and smiling. Feeling the salty air on my skin was just what the doctor had ordered. The sound of the waves rolling in, the seagulls’ noise …yep, that was definitely something I had missed terribly lately.
And even if the weather was an atrocity most of the time, as in more rain than sun, I still made the absolute best and most of it. Also, some hours of beach time are still better than none, right?
When it was pissing down too much, I simply holed up in the dorm and read and waited. Just like I did on that one afternoon when there was a bit of a thunderstorm going on. I patiently kept waiting for the rain to stop and then went my merry way out to the beach (which is a little walk away from the hostel where I usually stay in, but that doesn’t matter). Once I was there, I took off my shoes and walked barefeet. Because that? Is pure bliss, y’all.
Seriously – feeling the sand beneath my toes, the Baltic Sea lazily lapping over my feet, a breeze … I was very, very happy in those moments. And absolutely at peace as well. I was also “in the moment”, just me, myself and I. That is, I focused on my own self and well-being there at the beach. Yes, there were other people as well, but for me, the most important thing was that I managed to shut out as much as possible from what was going on and just BREATHED. It felt SO GOOD to turn off my mind and just be one with the elements around me for a change. Cleansing effect for sure.
It calmed me down, helped me to put stress and other unwelcome things behind me for a bit. Weather be damned! 🙂
Finding those timeouts which help to ease the raging chaos in my mind is something very valuable. Something I treasure and embrace. And even if my actual Beach Time was rather short this time around, it still left a positive feeling. Because I didn’t really have a care in the world. On the very contrary! It was wholesome, made me happy.
The picture of today’s post was taken on that very evening after the thunderstorm. The sky, clouds and sunlight were ridiculously gorgeous, and the photo I snapped with my phone doesn’t do it 100% justice. But still … this was IT. My moment of Zen. Of absolute peace.
Ocean Soul 