Time to decide
Ten years old. Beach on the Atlantic ocean, cold water, warm but breezy summer day, hard light. Standing right where the waves end their intense crashing, afraid of their size. Back turned to the ocean, feet on wet sand, looking at people right and left of you, on a parallel line to the water, some looking happy, some sad, others indifferent. A sudden silence behind you makes you turn towards the waves. Time freezes. A giant wave, several times taller than you, almost casts a shadow. Time to decide. Try to outrun it? Impossible, unless you have some hidden certainty that something will stop it. Or run as fast as you can towards it, trying to jump into it, before it crashes on you. Will you be able to? Time to decide. Just don’t take too long to make that decision – it might take twenty years, it might take one hundred, but the wave will come.
