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Arms of the Kraken
Friday, September 16, 2011

My feet all snugged up in the soft sand while looking out on the shore, watching all the happy faces splashing about in the water. The borders of waves distinctly separated the people into two entities. The ones already in the water, leaving those on land either preferably staying dry, or those yet to be preyed on and dragged to the other 'side'. It's been awhile since I swam and I wasn't thinking of getting wet. Most of them, had no intention either. But regardless the circumstances, without choice, those that shouldn't, wouldn't and couldn't swim, one by one they got dragged in to their fate. A fate most of us rejected strongly until swept away by a team of determined folks. Once our skin touched the water, we knew it was over.

The beauty was seeing how everyone embraced the water right after the few seconds of despair and struggle. In time, almost everyone who was caught in the arms of the Kraken was having fun in the water, as though they were naturally part of it. A extreme change of feelings that is. And it was as though whatever that held as back previously was now an unchangeable fact. We were wet, dirty, sticky and uncomfortable in all manners. And there's nothing we could change about that, well aside for our clothes, not that everyone brought extras anyway. It wasn't the usual state we'll be in, but still something tolerable, something, when made the most out of, becomes endlessly enjoyable.

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