Sandy Beaches

What do you think about as you write your name in the sand on the beach?

...About the hundreds of millions of other people who's names and friends names have all floated out to sea, colliding with one another, gliding amongst the fishes in harmony?

How about the pleas for Help! & Rescue! from those unfortunate souls that have been stranded on mysteriously magical islands far away?

One could even think of lovers stranded in Love's ocean drawing hearts in the sand with their love's name forever enclosed in the middle.

Do these imprints in the sand wash away with the tide, forgotten by the ever-renewing sand? Or, are they whisked into another world to enchant the fishes and tickle reefs?

Is it symbolic that these emotions of ours that seem so strong and deep at the time are so easily gone from in front of us?

Why do we even have the need to write in the sand when so many times we have been upset and frustrated by the tide inching forward every time we attempt to write a little farther up... trying desperately to escape its erase.
For even if we are lucky and tide is low, and we are able to leave our mark, we know that by high tide that piece of us left on the beach will be gone.

Yet, it is inevitable. Whenever at the beach the lure of that washed up driftwood and ever-inviting sand wins!

I tend to think there is something psychological behind it all. We have a need to want to leave our mark on this world somehow.
It must be known that we were here and we believed in something. May it be that we believed in the love of a certain person in time...
May it be that we believed we would be rescued from whatever is keeping us lost...
From the four year old learning to write and spell: an 'A' in the sand let's the world know that that four year old believed in himself... believed that everyone should see what he/she could do, because he/she was here and had accomplished something.
Its hard for us to exist without wanting to leave a mark for that would be like not existing. No matter the fact that in time we will be gone just like our footprints in the sand.