Sandcastles

At the end of the day, you'll find the concrete you painstakingly laid disintegrates into sand, leaving nothingness just as when you began.

Have you ever built a sandcastle?
You know when you put in a lot of effort to create a solid fort and dedicated a lot of time to carve the beautiful details, and with all your heart and patience, worked to materialize the castle in your mind's eye?

And how it feels when a humongous wave crashes to shore, smashing your painstaking effort into smithereens, leaving nothing behind? All your time and dedication in exchange for nothing.

Of late, I get that feeling a lot. Everything I gave, all the time spent giving, was exchanged for nothing.

I must have been a fool building sandcastles.

～みはる～