Waves

As the warm water lapped against his legs he felt a sense of excitement. On an impulse he pushed himself up with is hands. Patting the sand out of his hands and clothes he started walking faster and faster until it was a run. With each foot forward he found himself battling against the ocean to get past its waves. He had to lift his feet higher and higher to get around the high waves. And then when he was almost waist-deep in water he dove in. He pushed through the water with all his limbs and tried to move deeper into the ocean. He swam further and came up to the surface for air and bobbed on the water for a while. He looked at his wrist watch that had ticked on in spite of the saline water threatening to enter it. He had been pushing against the currents for 20 minutes and had moved a few meters out of the shore.

A giant wave came crashing over his head, it broke and carried him back to the spot where he had started.