The Sea

 

The sea. Huge and immense. Calm and serene. Rocky and rough. It sustains a huge diverse ecosystem within it.

The sea. It lets people relax on the shores. It lets people swim in as much as they can. It lets people cross lands over it. It lets people dig in for their food.

Instead of being thankful, some people choose to throw rubbish at the sea and litter it, exploit it, pollute it. The sea bears all calmly. Despite all that is thrown at it, it never breaches its shoreline. And there lies its strength. Its might. It knows that it can punish those erring humans in a matter of a few minutes by running over the very land that they inhabit, destroying everything that comes in its way. But no, that is not its strength.

The sea's strength lies in reigning its temper, its fury and not breaching the coastline because it knows that doing so will cause complete destruction, desecration and death. The power to destroy and yet the control over its own power is its supreme strength.

Some people are like the sea.




~ Sheetal Soni