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#BTColumn – Falling in love with beautiful Barbados

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by Walter Edey

Once you discover the beauty of Barbados, you can’t help but savour every inch and pinch of the coral stone island.

You take walks on the boardwalks, on dirt tracks in the villages, and on trails in the gullies. You sit on a big rock or rock-stone and watch golden apples fall and roll.

You stop at a bus stop or rum shop – and wait for hours – and never complain. You absorb the waves at Bathsheba in St Joseph, or Shark Hole inlet in St Philip, and let the vibes align your hips as you move your lips.

You hide from thunder and lighting but run to a burning fire in a gap. And when you hear a knock at your gate, you pull your window blinds and fix a plate – a loving meal for the stranger that must never wait.

While walking on the Accra boardwalk, some focus on the twists and turns; on the safety of the pathway; on the walkers, they meet and greet. Yet slowing down and pausing can be just as wonderful an experience as monitoring walking rates, or checking
digital fit bits.

On that Boardwalk, you can see sunrise and sunset, hear the hiss of the waves and see the blissful white foam kiss the rocks and cracks.  See a fisherman out to sea casting a net for thousands as he baits the restless sea.

While living on an island chasing the hustle and the bustle and rushing home to watch American TV are crimes of misplaced passion. Slowing down is powerful.

It is an act of self-love. It is mindfulness. It is mind-blowing.

When you slow down, when you stop running and sit, and look, doors of self–discovery open. Internal springs spring water. The water rises and makes waterfalls. The energy keeps rising and the waterfall’s barriers break and the water flows into unknown spaces, on the ground and underground.

Life begins afresh. Old eyes make self-made fresh lenses.  Suddenly the ordinary becomes extraordinary.  The sun rises on your life and never sets; the waves roll back lost years. The wind does your hustling and blows whistles when you should stop. Your beautiful memories never die.

Once you discover how much more beauty there is observed in Barbados, you connect to your uniqueness – and be thankful for the special island on which you live.

You start to give more; you have time to attend to other things. Your needs and desires desert you. .   

Choosing to observe the beauty of Barbados is not an event but an enlightened journey. It begins with the first intentional pause. The first deliberate stop you make or seat you take or smile you make.

\The inventories of missed insights grow and glow. Slowing down and taking your time is not a wasted effort. It is a manifestation that the end comes before the beginning when you plan a holiday or a trip or a walk along the boardwalk.

In observing the beauty of Barbados you are acknowledging that you are not alone but you and Barbados are one.  Best of all, when you discover and embrace the beauty of Barbados you are looking into the biggest mirror of life. A gift freely given that will let you know who you are.

When you discover the beauty of Barbados as gunshots miss or hit the mark, every injury or death will make you weep and cry; will make oceans of tears flow; and will revive – and bring alive the Constitution river.

When Barbados discover the beauty of Barbados adults will convince children to take or paint pictures of beaches, boardwalks, dirt tracks and mounds. And educators will grade the masterpieces with pens that screech and make loud and proud sounds.    

Walter Edey is a retired math and science educator.

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