Embrace the winds of Change

Usually when I return back to my parents house after one of my 7 day, 6 hours a day, back to back surfing weeks, every one of my blog posts seems to be inspired by my time in the water. So, if you feel like everything I’ve told you this week has somehow tied in surfing, that’s because it has .  Anyways, waking up early in the morning and getting in the water for my morning session is one of the best parts of my day. I look forward to it every day because the conditions of the water are better at that time than they are at any other point during the day.  Normally as the day progresses, onshore winds pick up and eventually make the ocean a complete mess, known in the surfing world as “being blown out.”  Usually, this doesn’t happen till somewhere after 12pm, at least that’s the case here in California.

Sunday morning I woke up by 6am, energized, eager to hit the beach, only to find that by 7am strong winds had already turned the ocean into a complete mess.  Needless to say I was really disappointed to see that so early in the morning and I felt that my whole day was shot. In fact even later in the afternoon it was so windy when I sat at a coffee shop near the beach that the door kept blowing open, and the old man crossing the street looked like a strong gust could carry him away.

Fast forward to monday morning. I woke up to check the surf report, and the wind had died down, and the temperature had dropped. However, looking at the report couldn’t really prepare me for what came next. When I got to the beach and saw the calm glassy water, the waves were ABSOLUTELY PERFECT.  In my entire summer, I’d never seen anything like it. In fact later in the day one of the surf instructors who teaches at this beach told me that “It’s only this good here about 10 times a year.” It was redemption for the day before.  For the next 4 hours it was absolute bliss. Fairly sizable waves, and just a rush that I can’t explain to you no matter how many times I write about it. Like the matrix, you have to experience it for yourself.

If you haven’t figured it out by now, this is a perfect analogy for life.  Sometimes the winds of change come into our life, and tend to turn everything into a blown out mess.  In fact when the winds of change in our lives pick up, they can turn everything upside down or inside out.  But when the wind calms and things return to “normal” we often find ourselves in a situation far better than the one we were in before the winds of change.  So, embrace the winds of change because they’re only here to make everything a thousand times better.

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