Ever since I have my new camera, I love the sea even more so than before. The moment I get to the coast, I unpack my camera and feel this urge to go out and take some photos. So the day we arrived, right after dinner I told my husband; “just leave everything on the table, I’ll clean up when I get back, I need to go out and capture the sunset.” In less than 5-minutes, I got to the beach and for a moment, I just stood there, taking in the scenery and the smell. That distinctive smell, you can tell apart from a thousand others smells.
I spend nearly 2 hours trying out all the various filters my camera has to offer. (It’s quite incredible what a little change of light can do.) When I finally managed to withdraw myself from everything around me, I swung myself onto my bike, took a few more deep breaths and felt utterly relaxed and extremely happy. Still completely unaware of what was awaiting me at home.
When I got back to our trailer, everything was standing everywhere. My husband explained the dishwasher must have had an issue, and the water damage was everywhere. On top, he hadn’t been able to turn on the heater. So it was cold, and the wooden floor had soaked up the water and well it was quite a mess.
Time for another deep breath :) I grabbed the operating instructions from the heater and learned that even gas heaters have a little battery in charge of the spark plug. It wasn’t that easy to replace, I broke a piece of the surrounding case while putting it back together, but it worked, and at least we were warm again. We weren’t able to fix the dishwasher but cleaned the floor and the kitchen to our best ability, so everything looked near to normal again.
When I finally sat down to browse through all the photos I took, I realized this evening had given me two lessons:
1. Don’t wait until you have done everything you must do before you go off and follow your heart. If I had first cleaned up, I would have never gone out afterwards. I would have been way more frustrated if my heart hadn’t felt as light as a feather.
2. Life sometimes needs a few filters as well. We can be just like a camera. We can decide what light we want to project on the scenery that we face.
My husband told me I often see life through rose-tinted glasses. Well, I wished everyone had such a pair. Makes life a lot easier to bare.
