I had been dreading going back to the beach ever since my mother nearly drowned in the sea last summer.
I didn’t know what to expect.
However, my encounter with the ocean at La Serena, Chile was far from traumatic.
I have never experienced anything like it…
This powerful body of water has its own personality. It is unlike any other sea I have ever been at.
You feel this mighty presence all around you.
And just in case you forgot, La Serena has a system of tsunami alerts. You feel the ocean alive next to you. Like a giant lung, it breaths energy into the surrounding nature.
Is it a benign presence? How can this mesmerising beauty have the cruelty of producing the periodic tsunamis the people of La Serena are so afraid of?
I was pondering over this question in my hotel room before falling asleep, when an earthquake shook my bed.
Was that the answer? Is nature too powerful to subject itself to the laws of good and bad?
After all, the sea gave me back my mum. I should stop asking questions.
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