I spentLast week on Holliday with my daughter and granddaughter. We lived together until recently and I have missed them, so a week away with them was lovely.On the first day I spent an hour alone walking up the beach reflecting on impermanence and tried to make some sence of the loneliness I have been feeling over the past couple of months.On my third day there I went into the sea with my granddaughter, she floated on her inflatable toy and we talked about lots of things.As we relaxed in the warm water on a beautiful sunny afternoon a police car raced up the beach, then a coastal patrol vehicle. A helicopter hovered overhead and then another.As the helicopters landed one at a time up the beach-no more than 300 yards- we went to talk to my daughter. Activity continued for a while and people were being called out of the sea.I thought it was a training exercise and never really thought about it more than that. For several hours the patrol cars drove up and down the beach calling people out of the water and police and coastal patrol running up and down.My daughter who had her phone with her discovered that at that time three young men had died, drown in the water right at the side of us.We later discovered two more bodies had been returned from the sea. Five young people died on a crowded beach surrounded by people.I then think as I felt sorry for myself and my loneliness five people discovered how to be surrounded by people who never even noticed them.Somethings you just can't make sence of for me this is one of them, or maybe there just isn't anything to make sense of?
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