Once There Were Sand Castles..

The memories we share with the people we love are like building sand castles. We take effort in building it. We laugh together, filling up our hands with sand, carefully curving the castles with our very own hands. Yes we find pleasure in building it although we are aware that it can be easily destroyed in just one splash of the water or in a single blow of the wind. We see it right before our very eyes. The sand castle we built in fun and pleasure, standing proudly amidst the waves and wind. Yet, in just a blink of an eye, that sandcastles can crumble, carried away by the waves, dilute it, until nothing remains.

Yet we know that once there is a sandcastle in that spot. We see it destroyed and we can't do anything to keep it intact or stop the waves and wind from tearing it down. Yes perhaps we can, but for how long? As said, it came from dust and to dust it will return.

In the same way, the moments we share with others and with our loved ones are like those castles. We shared happy moments together, we laughed and had fun. We had moments of tears and pain to the point that we wanna give up building moments together. The same is true to the winds and waves that may discourage us to go on and build sand castles. At times we simply want to let the sand slip through our grasp. But still, the feeling of anticipation, pleasure and simply the joy of being with each other give us the push to be together although we also know, and we are aware that the moments we build in sweat and blood can end up as mere memories, like the castles destroyed by waves and wind. We saw the moments crumble right before our very eyes and we can do nothing about it. In the end, it all stumbles into pieces. It is gone until nothing remains, but we know that there were the moments, moments that we can only see through our mind's eye.

Once there were castles of sand.
Once there were memories.
It's gone but we know that once..it's there..right before our very eyes...