Coalescence

And he sat there on a bamboo veranda, watching the warm ocean roll in and out, below the bowing palm trees that sighed gently in warm wind. And he reflected quietly on his life and his place in the various machinations of the world that he moved within, and in which and of which he played a part.

And to what degree were his actions consequential? As each wave rolled up the ruffled sand, he saw how each decision he'd taken had made change. Not only in his own life but in the lives of others. And his actions echoed down through the world. He had a place.

As the cicadas sang, and the sea hushed its complicated language over the shifting sands, he saw how his life played a part. Just a little part. And as he sighed his last, and his vision blurred, and the sea melded with the sky, he knew that his life wasn't without consequence. As his children laughed and played in the growing distance.

And even as the cicadas continued relentless, he understood that the difference between snow and warm sea is that one is set and decided and crystallised, whilst the other is warm and fluid and undecided. And he knew that being alive was warm water, and that it took death to crystallise one's view such that it held a perspective. Prior to that, only warm and tangled currents could define any view. Confusion. Something yet to form. Yet to crystallise. And only some frozen form that came from the cessation of fluid indecision could ever define him. So he came to know that his death coalesced his life into something recognisable.

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