“a canoe waiting at the riverbank.”
And a thoni (Boat) resting on the shore—Kadavathoru Thoni—is the soul waiting, quietly, for the right companion, silent as a held breath to begin its journey toward clarity, liberation, and divine love.
I have always felt like that boat.
In the hush of solitude, I learned to listen to myself.
It is in that stillness the self transforms,
where the soul, freed from expectations, finally rises.
Solitude became my teacher.
It taught me the rare art of partnering with myself.
someone, somewhere, decides it must mean something else.
Not because of who I am, but because I’m not from an affluent family.
They only see the girl in their heads—
the one chasing money,
the one they could judge without guilt,
the one they could define without knowing.
the joy of sipping a cold beer after a long, beautiful swim in a bikini that feels like freedom.
That is Survival Swimming — the hardest form of swimming and the truest reflection of real life.
Survival swimming is what you do when the current is too strong, when nobody is cheering and you have only two choices—sink or stay alive.
In life, too, some of us grow up learning survival strokes.
Not because we want to, but because our circumstances demand it.
Because judgement comes quicker than understanding.
Because being middle class makes people assume your motives.
Because enjoying your own body, your own joy, your own freedom
is seen as a crime if it doesn’t fit their script.
That is the most difficult kind of swimming—
the kind done against the current of society,
the kind learned in silence,
the kind born from dignity, not desperation.
You move with whatever strength you have left.
You refuse to let the waves take you to death.


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