Water -Jennie Pahl

Have you ever noticed how being around the water, especially the beach brings upon a lot of reflection? Everytime I go to the beach I find myself reevaluating me, and things I have done, or what I should of done, and just overall reflecting on my life in general. It never fails everytime I end up at the beach I end up reflecting on some aspect of my life. I even noticed at beach week everybody seemed to be doing to same thing. As the week went on more and more of the individuals in our house would go out for a run or long walk by themselves. I got curious and asked a few of the guys what they did when they went out and many of them openly admitted they just thought about things. I often wonder what it would be like to live at the beach, if it would take away that special feeling it has. The beach in my eyes is greatly infamous for having what I'd like to refer to as no time, no hassles, just life and fun! I think after being at the beach for about 3 days you begin to get bored with thinking about the present and future and then something pulls you into the past. I know that one year we took a church reteat to ocean city, sc and my "family group" ended up having a reflection hour on the beach where we all ended up crying after we evaluated our past. I know with all of my friends we have had this discussion again and again, and I still have not figured out exactly what it is about the beach or lake etc, that makes me reflect on things sooo much.