The Feel Good Way

Summer is boring. Summer has lasted long enough. It’s time for autumn, winter, storms. Do you agree? I want to cuddle up in front of the fire, go for walks on the beach during a storm, wear warm sweaters and coats, feel snow crisp under my boots. I am sure I am not the only one feeling like this, but I must say it sure feels like I am alone in this world!

I try to manipulate things. I start manifesting and I put on winter clothes with Dr. M. boots on my feet. Apart from feeling uncomfortably hot nothing happens ; summer consists, temperatures around 25 and cloudless skies. We’ve passed the middle of September for crying out loud! But rumour has it that by the weekend the gods will favour me. Storms are on their way.

Meanwhile life goes on, it is what it is, and I can no longer postpone a shoot for a client in Oostende, one I wanted to combine with a cloud shoot. I must deliver so I must go now.

Feeling terribly hot in my winter clothes I decide to take my little convertible car. I realise it will be the last time this year that it will be of use. I put on sunscreen, take the top down and off I go. Driving ‘topless’ is one of the good things that summer brings. I love it! I ride towards the sea with the wind in my hair, nothing but the sky above me, I relish as if it’s the last time in my life instead of the season. Awesome! I am all in.

I do my shoot in Oostende. I already know the location so I know my way around and finish quickly. I put my gear back in my car, take my jacket, and with nothing but my car key in my pocket I cross the street and onto the beach. The sky is blue, it’s windy, a bit chilly even. It’s passed the summer season and the holidays, so I imagined the beach empty, but it isn’t. I find a spot at a distance of other beach goers. Right at the edge of where the dry sand becomes wet I sit down with my jeans in the sand. The sea is quite rough and the waves violently crash on the beach. I close my eyes. My hair blows in my face. I immerse in the sound of the waves. I slightly hear some distant talking in a language I don’t understand, too far anyway. The waves are loud but at the same time it’s extremely quiet in my head.

What a delight!

I hear sirens. I open my eyes and see a truck of fire fighters pass by and ride towards the shore, and then another one. A woman crying in despair. I can’t see what happens so I close my eyes and focus on the waves again, on the wind in my hair, on the Now, on the delight.

Another voice ‘are you OK?’, I automatically open my eyes again. We all have this certain amount of curiosity, right? Another person answers that all is good. But I see 2 large life-saving boats right in front of me in the sea. Looking for something, or more likely someone. I keep my eyes on the 2 boats, one is blue, the other orange. The waves are quite large. The boats are stable but at the same time they aren’t. They go up and down. The lady behind me says everything is fine now. The boats turn and at full speed they sail towards the harbour. With their powerful engines they cut through the waves and onto the harbour. I love watching how the man made machine is able to go through the power of nature with such speed and force. They are gone in no time.

And so am I. It’s time to go. My batteries are charged. Time to get back into my little car and drive home; ready to put it into winter storage. The sign that summer is over, and autumn is starting.