Hi! I just bought this bracelet about 20 minutes ago. It’s my first time back at the beach since getting home from college for the summer, and it’s my first time ever doing a solo beach trip like this. I go to school in Beloit, WI, which is obviously very far from the ocean, and I miss it dearly when I’m away. Cannon Beach is the beach my family would Always go to when I was little, and I can’t even begin to describe how many memories I’ve made here. I also tend to be very dramatic about the ocean, and how it’s a metaphor for life and each wave is a different path and all sorts of things like that. I could and have written essays about it. I have no idea who I’m going to give this to, but whoever is looking at this if you know the group Ateez, a lot of their songs from the treasure series specifically pretty much sums up how I feel. I think that’s really all I have to say right now, other than that I’m really excited to start this necklace’s journey!!! I’m gonna leave you with a quote from one of my past essays about ocean symbolism 🙂
“We must keep moving. The journey, the process of life, the choices, and the pain and the joy, that’s what makes it worth it to live through it. Maybe there is an actual purpose, some predetermined path that none of us know about, but I don’t need to know right now. I just need to take one more step, look out at the ocean, and know that I have the freedom to choose whatever wave I would like to ride out on towards my future.
At the beginning of this year, I wrote the line “I have stood on the beach with my toes in the water, and pointed out at the horizon.” At the beginning of this year, I was standing and pointing toward the future, now I’m on the cusp of it all. I’m ready to take that last step, to dive in. No matter what happens, at least I’ve done that. Though failure may be final, that doesn’t make it any less true that it’s “Pretty amazing to be something, at least” (Night In The Woods).”
