Weekly Photo Challenge: Comfort

There was the vast ocean first that gave me the kind of comfort I wanted before I fell in love with the mountains. That was when I learned about the essence of solitude. Seeing her gives me so much comfort. Now that I’ve been away from the ocean for quite some time now, I can’t help but crave that kind of comfort she gives just like the very first time we met in the summer of 1998 in Appari, Cagayan.

Nagsasa Cove in San Antonio, Zambales

We can get comfort from a lot of things around us—family, movie theater, classroom; the trees and animals around, the rivers, the stars, the moon, the sun; eating your favorite food, playing music; or wandering through the woods. But there’s a different kind of comfort that I want to get every once in a while. The kind of comfort that makes every neuron in my nervous system relaxed. The kind of comfort that helps me connect to the world of nature and spirituality. It’s the time when all I want to do is to be with myself.

I believe that there’s an exquisite form of comfort that comes from being alone while overlooking the ocean. Nothing beats that if it’s being done as the waves are crawling to the shore; from having the opportunity to just fritter the time away; from staring blankly at the wall; from looking over the horizon as the sun sets or rises; from wandering aimlessly through the woods; or anything that makes the world around me undisturbed.

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