A Reflection of What Was

This weekend the Diving Club where CJ grew up hosted a meet. I have been slowly rejoining these events and bringing diving into my life again.

Like the reflection in this PICTURE, everything was mirrored for me - a reflection of the past with the present.

And just like the reflection in the water, the mirror reflection in life was a little blurred.

The pool looked exactly the same, but construction had changed much of the surroundings, making it feel old and new all at once.

There were all the wonderful people from the wide diving family - so familiar but a little bit older, with new burdens of their own. The memories I had of them with CJ now overlayed with the passage of their lives and new memories to share.

And of course, watching all the new little divers, while the memory of CJ on those boards, played through my mind.

It’s hard to explain the duality of feelings, the exhilaration and pain existing side by side. The constant mirror of the past with the present.

I would not change one minute and I am so grateful to have this diving family there to honour and remember CJ with 💜