After a very late night yesterday, I woke up early (with great difficulty) to show up for the ‘Dolphin watching’ trip I had signed up for. I sleepily got into the boat and 8AM and was told during the briefing that the dolphins are wild and that means there is no guarantee that we will see them. But, the probability was 9 times out of 10.
Anyway, turns out we were the exception. The dolphins didn’t show up but I had a nice time drifting off to sleep on our motor boat enjoying the breeze and the spray..
I realized a couple of things though –
– The ocean is just ‘awesome’. Truly does justice to the word. Should it decide to turn against us – boy, are we in trouble? It’s power reserves are unimaginable.
– As annoying as it was, I prefer not seeing dolphins in the wild than seeing dolphins in an enclosure in an animal park.
– I’ve been looking forward to this since the day I arrived. I saved it for the last.. I guess something are not meant to be.
– I watched some ducks bobbing up and down the waves near some rocks. The waves were rough and they were being tossed around a fair bit. But, they hung around paddling furiously.
Somehow, that image reminded me of life. We get tossed around a fair bit by forces beyond our control. It’s up to us to hang in there when the going is tough and still go about doing what we have to do.
A Learning a Day 