Dream Castles

I still remember that peaceful morning. I woke up with a mission in mind. I did not even care about my looks or about my empty stomach. I still remember those blissful waves to whom i had come to bid adieu. But before that final goodbye, i had a task to accomplish. As you all may have guessed from the picture, the creator of that castle cannot be a professional. But I did not want a grandoise castle nor did i have time for it. I just wanted to create something beautiful when i was at the right place.

When the sea is more than 500 kms away from your town, beaches are always like some magical dreams. No matter how many times you visit them, after each vacation they seem unreal. I was like the happiest person on the beach that morning while collecting the wet sand with my bare hands. Buying tools for my castle seemed childish to me and it was like a waste of money. After all, when will i get a chance to soak my hands in that soft and gritty sand. There were three of us on this mission. They had to agree after listening to my costant blabber about making a castle.

Honestly, though it might not look that perfect and huge but after about an hour of combining wet sand, moderately wet sand and dry sand, I was proud of my castle when it was complete. The sun was just rising up from one direction with the waves rising up towards it from the opposite direction. And i was happy. We ran around the beach for some more time, admired the beauty of our caslte and clicked some pictures for memories. Then we had to go back. Others were waiting for us for the breakfast. Ohh, How I wished at that moment that I had come alone! Though it was only a fleeting thought but i wanted to sit on the beach near my castle for as long as I wished. But then my stomach was also in favour for having the breakfast as indicated by its growls.

Enough with this tale, today I came here to share another thought that struck a cord in my heart when i was looking at these pictures. It was the ease with which i had built this castle. How easy it was to be happy just by this tiny useless heap of sand. Maybe I am still really bad at adulting and maybe thats why this small memory takes up such a huge space in my heart. But my heart aches when i think about the people who have to work so hard to seek happiness and build their dream castles in real life. It is really hard for me as well, but still i consider my life to be priviledged from many aspects. Maybe that is why i was able to have some extra pieces of my heart which could break when i saw my castle nearly drowning by those waves. Many people do not even have the luxury to feel sad about such trivial moments over the heavy burdens their hearts have to carry.

While I wanted to spend some more moments with the castle i had just built, just imagine the longings of people who had spent decades in their real houses which they had to leave. And just like that, some priviledged person sitting in his grand castle ordered their houses to be destroyed by missiles. How unfair, helpless and broken they must have felt. To spend your whole life working so hard and putting your heart in making a building your home, just to leave with just few neccessities. Even before building my castle, I very well knew that it would drown eventually. Still I was sad. Now, what about the people who had never even dreamt of such tragic events. I always knew life is unfair but still it breaks my heart to see that most of the times it is just our fellow humans who make life more devasting. We cannot even blame nature when us humans cannot play fairly among each other.