Recently I took a trip to Provincetown (or P-town as its better known) in Cape Code. A peninsular town, blue seas and light house, one little street lined with beach front houses and restaurants- a perfect recipe for instant rejuvenation. It was my second trip up there in less than a year actually! This place has the charm that makes me keep going back, I wont be surprised if I head back again in a few months. Fellowship does compel you to feel the need to rejuvenate more often. 😛

Anyways one evening I was at the very end of the town, sitting by the sea, watching the sun go down by the light house. The sun discharging a ray of golden bliss every now and then as it peeked through the clouds on its way out. I sat there with my camera, waiting for that perfect shot of the evening sky, sea and a light house. I was so focused on that, I was  purposely ignoring the swamp and dunes just a glance away on my right. I saw those dunes on my morning runs, never found them interesting. I mean who cares for those half dead pools of water and heaps of sand. But then, at a moment in time I glanced at those dunes as the water filled up the swamps- and this is what I saw and captured. In an instant, I forgot about the sea, the light house and the perfect shot I was waiting for- cause when I saw the golden reflections in the water as the sun peeked through; everything ugly and redundant of those dunes and swamps dissolved.

Isn’t it true in real life? We try so hard and focus so much on those specific goals and the joys therefrom, and don’t achieve them. And then we incidentally find that euphoria or the feeling of gratification in the most unexpected of things. Its a lesson in life I have learnt more often, yet we tend to cling on to specific things in life. I say- just step back and look around, that happiness might just be slightly off track.

I am not the only one who thinks P-town is magical. Try reading The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod or  Land’s End: A Walk in Provincetown.