Blogging For Fun Friday - 2 Things I Can Not Live Without

This week, our Friday's Blogging For Fun common theme is to write two things we can not live without. Now, if I can only choose the easy pair which we all can not live without: the sun,  

Sunset @ Torrey Pines States Reserve, San Diego, CA

and water.

Bridalveil Falls, Yosemite National Park, CA

However, since these two are given that we really can not live without, therefore, these are exempted from the list. But I must say I really am a lover of both sun and water, especially when I stand in between them, where it allows me to observe the refraction, scattering and reflection of sunlight as it hits thousands of water molecules ( like the waterfall picture above with the double rainbow). 

I love being close to the ocean, listening to the sound of the waves, and looking at the horizon at sunset. Even though I do love mountains and desert too, but I guess it would be very hard for me to live too far from the ocean since I always long to be with it. So, living as close as possible to the ocean would be the first thing that would be very hard for me to live without. 

McWay Falls, Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, Big Sur, CA

I can stand not seeing the ocean for a day, but if in a week, if I don't get to hear its splashing waves, if I don't get to see the horizon as far as my eyes could see, if I don't get to see the transformations of the sky during the sunrise and sunset, I feel a deep sense of longing, to be at the sea again. Maybe, this can be explained by my childhood, as we grow up in one of the not so small yet not so huge islands in the Philippines, thus the ocean was always there for me to give me comfort, and also, to give me fun.

Danjugan Island Marine Sanctuary, Negros Occidental, Philippines

I have not really stayed in a place long enough yet without the ocean to run to whenever I feel sad or lonely, or whenever I just want to celebrate happiness. Maybe, I would be able to adjust, but right now, I know, it will be very hard for me to live very far from it. 

Second in the list of things is my watch, which I find I share this attachment to knowing the time with Melissa. I maybe one of the few persons in the world who sleeps with her watch. I wear it despite there is a big clock on top of our dresser. My husband would tell me that our cellphones have clock too, but the problem with cellphone is, I always forget to bring it with me! Sometimes, I am out of the house already, and I would remember I forgot my cellphone, I would simply tell myself, "you don't need it!", so I would proceed. But not if it is my watch that I forgot, I really take the effort to go back, find my watch, and wear it, since for me, I really need it. I just feel more secured if I have my watch, I just have to be on time always, I guess :) . 

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