20/05/2026
There once was a wave who believed she was alone.
She rose high above the sea, sparkling in the sunlight, proud of her shape and strength. She raced beside other waves, some bigger, some smaller, always comparing herself.
One day the wind grew fierce, and the wave became afraid.
“What if I crash?” she whispered. “What if I disappear?”
An old wave beside her smiled gently.
“You are frightened because you think you are only a wave.”
“But I am a wave,” she replied.
“Yes,” said the old wave, “but you are also the ocean.”
The younger wave did not understand.
The old wave continued, “Look closely. Your body is the same water as every other wave. You rise from the ocean and return to it. You have never been separate from it, not for a single moment.”
The young wave looked around. For the first time, she stopped seeing competition and started seeing connection. Every wave moved differently, yet all belonged to the same vast sea beneath them.
Then the old wave said something she would never forget.
“People are the same. They believe they are separate from one another because they can only see the shape they currently wear. One calls themselves successful, another broken. One feels worthy, another lost. Yet beneath every fear, every story, every identity, they are all part of the same great ocean of life.”
The young wave listened carefully.
“Just as waves belong to the sea, people belong to something greater than themselves. Each person is a single expression of the whole. No one truly stands alone. Every thought, kindness, wound, and act of love ripples outward into the lives of others.”
The wave became quiet.
For the first time, she understood that the ocean was not trying to control her. It was carrying her.
And perhaps people spend their lives fighting the current because they have forgotten they are already part of something vast, connected, and alive.
Then something shifted inside her.
She realised that even when a wave falls, the water remains.
Nothing is lost.
And maybe the purpose of both waves and people is not to become bigger than the ocean, but simply to remember they were never separate from it to begin with….🩷