I've been down at the beach house with some friends for a few days. Life is pretty sweet :) I have a free holiday house for the whole family to use and ample school holidays to go down there and enjoy.
Here's a pic of part of the top floor lounge room.
As you can see, it's a highly stressful environment! I'm the type of person that usually hates sitting still, but there's something about the serenity (can I use this word now without sounding bogan?) of Venus Bay that forces you to stop and relax. Here's a pic of my beach.
Even though it's a 10 minute walk from our house to the beach, I'm sure you can understand why I call it my beach. Even on New Year's Day, which I imagine is one of the busiest times of the year, we could easily find a giant patch of sand to call our own.
So when it's not swimming weather (which for me is about 90% of the year), I pretty much stick to walking the beach or the bush tracks. I didn't waste all of my time though. I managed to read a few of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant's essays, most notably An answer to the question: What is Enlightenment?.
Here is an interesting excerpt from one of his essays:
As you can see, it's a highly stressful environment! I'm the type of person that usually hates sitting still, but there's something about the serenity (can I use this word now without sounding bogan?) of Venus Bay that forces you to stop and relax. Here's a pic of my beach.
Even though it's a 10 minute walk from our house to the beach, I'm sure you can understand why I call it my beach. Even on New Year's Day, which I imagine is one of the busiest times of the year, we could easily find a giant patch of sand to call our own.
So when it's not swimming weather (which for me is about 90% of the year), I pretty much stick to walking the beach or the bush tracks. I didn't waste all of my time though. I managed to read a few of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant's essays, most notably An answer to the question: What is Enlightenment?.
Here is an interesting excerpt from one of his essays:
The second source of man's dissatisfaction with the order of nature is the shortness of life. It is true that anyone who continues to wish that life might last longer than it actually does must have little appreciation of it's value, for to prolong it would merely add to the length of a drama made up of endless struggles with adversity. Nevertheless, we may excuse those of childish judgment who fear death but have no love of life, and who find it hard to complete each day of their existence with some degree of contentment, yet can never have days enough in which to repeat this painful experience.
How relaxing!
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