kimmy got me thinking and today i was walking down the beach looking for sea glass and this is what i came to:

sea glass is what i have been collecting the whole time i have been here. i didn't know why i was drawn to it so much but it has always been the most beautiful thing to me. i think that i am beginning to realize why i have this love for it.

it starts out just a piece of glass - frail and fragile. but for some reason it gets dropped in the sea and everything changes. it gets knocked over by waves over and over. it gets pounded in the sand again and again. it gets beaten and kicked around.

but in the end it comes out of it. it is not even the same recognizable piece of glass. it has changed into this completely new object. it has come out stronger and beautiful and it would never have gotten there if it didn't go through the beatings.

i think that i love sea glass because it is a survivor. and it tells me that after life's beatings we might just come out different - stronger -beautiful.