Hey, greetings and salutations! Aloha!
In going over some of my previous posts, I remembered that I was going to tell you about my trip to Hawaii.
Hawaii is my favourite place to visit, and I’ve visited lots of places. I’ve been trying to figure out for the longest time why Hawaii is my go to place, and it came to me at long last. Hawaii is where I go to find peace.
There are lots of stresses in our lives. Work, love, romance, friendships. Pain of lost loves, Canadian winters…well, you get the drift. These things don’t just affect the body, but they affect the mind and soul. They wear you down. They seep deep into your soul and cause a darkness…or a pall that never really goes away. The hustle and bustle of living is a constant drip, drip, drip that gets to you.
In Hawaii…for me at least…all of that disappears. The beaches, the blue skies, the relaxed attitude all conspire to chase my demons away; chase the stress away and chase the negative emotions away. Perhaps it’s the climate? Yes, but I’ve been to Aruba and it’s not exactly the same.
I think it’s the people. Correction–I know it’s the people. The people in combination with everything else drive out all the negatives in my life. Sitting by the beach, walking along the boulevards, seeing the palm trees all make it a paradise.
Swimming in the ocean, scuba diving, and seeing all the marine life make it a paradise. Forgetting about being a slave to time and the clock make it a paradise. Experiencing the warm, welcoming people make it a paradise.
Soaking up the history, seeing the pride of Hawaiians concerning their culture, and their determination to keep it no matter what makes it a paradise. The fierceness in how they KNOW Hawaii is something to be treasured and protected make it a paradise.
It’s an infectious atmosphere that I’m glad to catch.
Hawaii is the one place in the world where I feel at peace. It’s the one place in the world where I can relax and not care about a damned thing. My arthritis? Being without a partner? Ruptured friendships? Meh. They all disappear in the warmth of the setting sun, the friendly people, and the sparkling salt water.
“No… land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but that one, no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same. For me the balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the spirit of its wildland solitudes, I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.
Mark Twain
All I can say is that…this quote doesn’t do Hawaii justice.
Hawaii…I miss you and hope to return to you soon.
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