The Wind of Changes

Released under a Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives license on the 17th of October, 2009 (written in 2003). You may distribute this work commercially and non-commercially, as long as it stays unaltered, due credit is given to the author, and the author is informed of the publication.

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The sun started to set. The golden, hot, and tiring day changed its mood to a calm scene, painted in a warm reddish colour, and brought to life with the cooling sea wind.

Tim stood on a cliff, next to the water. He had climbed his way through the sharp rocks of the bayside. He had started walking from the beach, covered with pebbles, and he ended up on the very end, of the left side of the bay.

As he watched the resting land of power, dynamics, and beauty, his mind started to wonder about the past. He remembered yesterday, when he was still living to have moments of such happiness, full of movement, experiences, friends, and amazement. He wondered how could everything change so quickly, from one moment to another; how dramatic and sad life is.

Tim remembered her. Her smile, her shiny light brown hair, and the moment, she told him that she would see him next summer, and that they should write to each other. Then she kissed him for the first time on his lips. She traveled home a week ago. Only a week, but now he knew, that he would never see her again. Their relationship had started and ended on this wonderful, and sad, sunny beach.

Tim knew that this was his last summertime spent here. Tomorrow he will be going far away and he will never be able to return. Never... or seven years? It was the same. He had spent three summers in this nature, which seemed like a thousand happy years, and now he will be away for at least seven more. Everything will be changed when he comes back. He would probably not even belong here.

Everything that had happened was just a memory now. A painful, heart-strangling, wonderful memory. He could never believe before, that he could lose a part of himself so easily.

He looked down at the water. It was dark, and deep, but familiar, and he felt safe. Tim sat down on the cliff, and plunged his toes into the tiny waves.

It was night now. The sun had already set on the horizon.

'Cold and strong wind rose, blew through his body, and ended with a warm summer breeze. He was standing in front of her on the cliff again. They were holding hands and laughing, happily. Again, a strong wind rose, and blew away everything...

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Reviews:

"A sweet, sad, complex, ambiguous, but utterly convicing and powerful story about the most poignant aspect of change in human life — love. Beautifully described."

Shane Kendal