Oh Happy Day (One of the happiest days of my Life)

(I thought of editing this and rewriting some parts for more clarity but then I thought, why kill the fun in the undiluted version of this that I wrote with great enthusiasm and joy? I still did sha)

My Lord! I've not had this much fun in a longggggg timeeee  😭

I had fun and I was still feeling wavy on my bed. Oh, what a feeling! 

The beach is my happy place. I'm yet to find another beauty of nature that beats the feeling I get any time I'm at the beach. Someday, maybe a second-best place to be. The beach will always be first. 

The journey to the island was a smooth one. I've always had a thing for boat rides. They calm my nerves a lot. 

I got my earphones plugged in listening to Amapiano, my newfound go-to music therapy. There's something about the Amapiano sound, though electric in nature, it performs a soft tissue massage on my brain. One day I'll get the right words to describe the spirituality I'm beginning to develop in this sound. 

The waves crashing on the sides of the boat served as background sounds for the melodic tunes blasting in my ears throughout the trip to the island. 

On getting to the Island. I didn't pay attention to the beautiful view of the Atlantic Ocean that spread to an unending length till it "touched the sky". "So, this is where y'all get those juicy pictures," I said to myself after sighting the two shipwrecks close to the shores of the beach- A rather prominent feature of the Lighthouse beach. 

This is not how I returned home

I got sunglasses from a local vendor and took some beautiful pictures in my swagged-out clothes. Lol, permit me to self-hype. It took me only a glance at the bed of the sea when I took some pictures to rush back to the sheds and shed off my clothes literally. Stripped down to the swimming pant I bought for the occasion. Packaged my finely twisted hair, whiskey bottle in hand (thanks to Lumi for the gift a month ago- October 2021.), and determination in my heart to play with the sea goddess as I heard her call out to me to come to have fun with her. 

One step in, two steps, three steps going, I kept moving till I could feel the waves hitting my knees. I stopped for a sip of whiskey. I start to sway in the wind and waves, head moving left to right like I'm performing and ritual of some sort. It's been a hell of a year for me (2021) I got laid off on my birthday and I had just quit my job a month before I had this experience.

Everyone looking at me at that point would think I'm probably drunk but I was just lost in my own thoughts, the wind and waves sound like music to me. I start talking to myself, softly at first, loudly by the minute. I kept emptying my thoughts, my emotions were all over the place. It was as though I was emptying a jar of ash into the sea, only this time, it is my emotional baggage and traumas. I basked in every moment I felt, every minute was worth it. I started journeying deeper into the water. 

The moment I dipped my head into one of the incoming waves, I just lay there allowing it to push me in its circular-like motion, I kept saying to myself, "wade in the water". My heart floated like a feather. I kept going deeper, floating ashore with the waves as I do. Letting out screams of pleasure at every wave that hit me. If they could hear me, which I think they did, they would have lingered longer each to have a dance with me. I swam for more than 3 hours before joining the others for games. By this time, my twists had loosened, and my eyes were red.

Hahaha, I just remembered I told the sea "I love you" while swimming. Oh, what a finished man I am😂. I lost my nose ring and shades at some point.

Memories from that day still make me smile and happy.