Gemotions

He stared out at the ocean, the wind whipping his hair across his face. The bucket list, discovered in his father’s old journal, felt like a betrayal. "Sail Around the World." He felt a pang in his chest. His father, a man rooted to his landlocked home, longed for the vastness of the sea?

He paced the shore, the waves crashing against the sand. He felt a profound sense of disappointment, not just in his father's unfulfilled ambitions, but in himself for not having shared in them. He felt a hollowness inside him, a vast, echoing emptiness that the ocean only seemed to magnify.