a reprise of an old theme: the promises we make 2.0

a bit cynical, yes, but to me it seems fit that promises of "forever" be seen as contracts written on the sands of the sea shore. one day you decide to build your whole life upon that promise, and the next thing you know, the tide demonstrates its disagreement, and takes that life you built upon the promise with it to the sea.


















sometimes, we think, if we can write down our contracts a bit farther away from the water, we might just make it...


















but once the wind kicks up a big enough storm that kicks up big enough waves, it was as if the letters, the words, the promise itself had never existed...


















but we keep making them anyway. that's the beauty of sand...


















by it's nature, no matter how many times you've written down on it, no matter how many sand castles you've built on it and destroyed, the sand does not harden like clay or cement, it forgives, it still permits us to write down whatever we wish to write down, to build on it whatever castles have sprung up in our heads or our hearts, and even if the tide comes to erase them, to destroy them, again, we can always come back, write them down again, build that castle up again, and again and again... until our own hands falter and lose strength, until our own heads wring themselves dry of words and thoughts, until our own hearts give out and give up on their beating... until that day comes, we keep on keeping on...

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a little something i wrote last year. reposting it here on my blog. pictures taken at portofino, lapu-lapu city, may 2009.