It was well worth the drive. Once you checked into the beach club, there was an infinity pool (which I saw for the first time here). For the uneducated like me, an infinity pool is a pool that is built up a bit from the ocean, so that the edge of it looks out to the horizon and it literally looks as if the pool goes on forever. It's pretty amazing.
Past the inifinity pool was the ocean. We've been told that this particular spot on this particular beach is one of the top 5 places to surf in the entire world. For as much as I know about surfing, I have no idea if that's true or not. I do know the waves, the beach, and the surfers we watched were absolutely unbelievable.
We got to the beach just before sunset, and so we were able to watch the sunset over the Gulf of Mexico, along the northwestern shores of Costa Rica. Standing here at the water's edge was one of the scariest, intense, spiritual moments of my life. Even though I like to pretend that I am a writer, I think I have absolutely no words great enough to explain what I was feeling in those moments.
But since I like to pretend that I am a writer, I have to at least try!
The waves that evening were unlike any I have ever seen. They were beautiful. The beach was absolutely spotless. Nothing like the dirty, overpopulated Californian beaches that I am used to. There were no picnic remains, cigarette butts, or people for that matter anywhere in sight. The sand was soft, clean, and full of shells. The water was not vibrant turquoise like you see on some beaches, but rather clear as could be with whiter than white swells.
I have never felt as small and insignificant as I did with those waves washing over my feet. Sometimes, especially as Americans, we get so caught up in our own worlds and our lives. We think and act as if the world revolves around us. Living in the United States breeds in us this mentality that "It's all about me." Even if we try and deny it, fight it, it's always there. It's our culture and how we live.
But man, it takes one or two of those massive, powerful waves washing over you to remember, you could be caught up in one of those and be gone in an instant. In the blink of an eye.
And what's even more amazing than that is that those waves are normal life. They are not a natural disaster or a freak occurance, or a one in a million event. It happens all day long, every day, 24/7/365. That power, that majesty, that beauty, that intensity. It's always there.
And in the scheme of it all, how do I fit in? Those waves will continue, with or without me. Wowsers. Pretty amazing stuff to give you perspective.
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