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Waves of Peace.
Waves of Peace.
Title: "Waves of Peace"
By Kalpesh Patel
Tarun was a city-bred workaholic — graphs, deadlines, caffeine, and boardroom battles. Life had become a loop: wake, work, worry, repeat. What remained constant was the pressure to perform and the suffocation of never-ending demands. Until one Friday evening, something within him snapped.
“I’m leaving,” he messaged his assistant. No explanation. Just a destination: the coast.
Tarika was already there. A marine biologist by passion, a poet by heart, she had escaped the urban grind long ago. She lived near the sea, studied its moods, and swam with the tides like it was second nature. For her, water was not just nature — it was nurture.
Tarun arrived at the beach resort, restless and unsure. The first thing he noticed was the silence — not absence of noise, but presence of calm. The waves whispered secrets he hadn’t heard in years.
The next morning, he spotted her — Tarika — gliding through the ocean like a whisper. Her strokes were gentle, controlled, serene. He stood at the shore, watching. She noticed.
“You don’t swim?” she asked later, smiling over coconut water.
“I used to. Years ago,” he replied.
“Then you still do. Water doesn’t check your age, your resume, or your doubts,” she said, eyes twinkling.
Over the next few days, she taught him to swim again. Not the technical strokes, but the feeling — of surrender, of flowing, of being weightless in a world that drags you down. Tarun struggled at first, but slowly, his mind began to let go.
One evening, as they floated on their backs under a twilight sky, Tarika said, “Swimming is not just a sport. It’s a doorway. You just need to trust it.”
Tarun turned to her, smiling, the salt water in his hair and peace in his eyes. “It’s strange. I came to escape work, but I found something better. I found myself.”
She nodded. “That’s what water does. It holds you without judging you.”
They didn’t label what they shared — it wasn’t needed. In the rhythm of waves and breaths, they swam not away from life, but deeper into it.
Blurb: In “Waves of Peace,” Tarun finds his escape from the chaos of city life in the company of Tarika — a free-spirited marine soul. Through swimming and sea-silence, they discover a deeper truth: the water doesn’t know age or burden — it only knows flow.
