Hurricane Ivan was the strongest hurricane of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season. It made landfall on the U.S. mainland in Gulf Shores, Alabama on September 16, as a Category 3. This was taken the day after Ivan’s landfall. Photo of Navarre Beach showing the new park that was nearing completion, or what was left of it.

I lived not too far from there, although a decade earlier.

This picture makes me think that, with regard to our lives in general, we tend to not do anything for fear of failure/ disaster. I believe sometimes, if we don’t make definitive decisions regarding our lives, present and future, a storm we can’t control will pop up to help us move along. Sure, it can leave a mess in its wake, but its usually just stuff we should have dealt with from the start.

I suppose if you look at it with new eyes, the disaster left in the wake of the storm can be a beautiful thing.