A long time ago, I dreamt that one of my schoolmates took me to a sandy beach. The scene was calm, with gentle waves rolling onto the shore. Beautiful colors spread across a wide azure sky, and a soft breeze touched my face. Giant rugged boulders held the landscape like a mother holding her newborn child. I felt a sense of vastness, yet deep peace.
He then told me he had found a beautiful place hidden along a secret path. From there, he led me down an unseen trail until we finally reached a natural sea cave. The cave walls, shaped and aged by time, had turned into crystal. Even wild berries were growing from the cave floor, we picked a few to taste.
It was one of the most beautiful moments of my life. It embodied the wildest fantasy I have ever had about the ocean — magnificent, yet pure and powerful.
Years later, I woke up in a quiet house in a suburb of Perth, Australia, with a beautiful song lingering in my head, replaying the dream I just had.
In the dream, I stood with a group of people on a tall cliff overlooking a rough, rugged sea. The scene was bizarre — small streams flowed in different directions through the middle of the ocean, while strange swirling waves spiraled down into the deep sea.
Among us was a girl who was brave. She insisted that she had to explore this mysterious ocean. Her courage shone like a bright light inside the darkest cave. We all knew she was in great danger, yet no one tried to stop her. The determination in her soul was stronger than all of our fears. Carrying the dreams of all of us, she stepped into a small boat.
The boat slowly drifted down the cliff and onto the sea, carried away by the sound of the waves.
We waited on the cliff, day and night, restless and anxious. My mind was tangled with thoughts about what might exist at the other end of the ocean. Then, in a strange moment of realization, I remembered another dream I had many years ago.
— The other end was the crystal cave! The most beautiful place I had ever seen. I had been there before.
Just as I was stunned by this realization, the girl appeared in the distance. Her boat was returning toward the shore. We began to cheer and celebrate her success. But suddenly a brutal wave crashed against the cliff. Her boat shattered, and she died before our eyes.
For a moment, everyone’s hearts seemed to stop. It felt as if the gods themselves had taken her life. The shock was unbearable, yet the light that burned inside her heart remained — heavy, determined, and without regret.
We left the place with heavy hearts, but also with hope. I imagined her reaching the other side of the ocean and finding the crystal cave. Everything she had risked and done on this journey now sings in harmony. Life and death no longer matter to this spirit, because it has completed its cycle.
At the end of the dream, we were charged in court, facing conviction for letting our friend go on a life-risking journey. I sat before the prosecutor, just like the courageous girl — determined and without regret. We all knew we had done the right thing, and so had she.
When I woke from the dream, filled with an unimaginable sense of awe, I realized something I had never thought possible before — that the dream I once had so long ago had returned again in my life.
Back then, I could only fantasize about going on adventures in foreign lands. Yet even in that moment of ignorance, the world had already been calling me.
I woke up, sat down at my desk and wrote down everything. Soon I knew it was a call to action — to search for the destination of that very dream, to search for the place where the gods might live. Perhaps, in my reverie, the gods live in the furthest corner of the planet, and hide within the most subtle feelings of our hearts.
It was the fourth year of my journey in Australia, and I was about to search for my final job opportunity. I could already hear the melody of this new chapter. For all the words I had written in my journal, in this dreamland of Australia, I was willing to risk everything to reach my wildest dream.
And then, God might have something to say.
14th March 2026
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