Lessons.

We make this: this choice, this journey, this life, this way in which we percieve the world. We build it with unsure hands, clumsy minds – a crude block house, an ugly sandcastle. The ocean washes it away. And so we start again – with moats and walls, with towers and cloisters, we build higher, thicker, sturdier walls. And the tide comes again. And the ocean washes it away.

And we rebuild better, sturdier, more beautiful, more complicated facades. And the waves break and steal its beauty one swell at a time.

You learned the most fundamental lessons of life on the beach in your childhood, while you toiled under the sun.