I’m a pediatric nurse at UCSF, and I see so much suffering in my work, and I get asked by families and kids, “Why is this happening?” And I don't have an answer. There is no answer. You know, all I've learned, really, is that we're here to learn. We're all just kind of here to experience this, this consciousness. 

In my early 20s, in Humboldt, I had a surfing buddy Eric, same name as me, same age. He was in nursing school a year ahead of me.

And he pulled up to the beach one day wearing a helmet. He had married a woman, Mel, she was wonderful. And she had had a dream that he died from a surfing accident.  

So Eric is wearing this helmet and we're like, “Dude, what's that?” And he's like, “Oh, Mel wants me to wear it.” And he wore it every day for two years religiously.

And then one day he didn't wear it. 

And that day I went to this taco truck. And someone said, “I thought you died. A guy named Eric died at the jetty today.” 

So the one day he didn't wear his helmet, literally the one day he didn't wear it … 

The longer I live, the less I know for sure. I mean that in a wonderful way. I think the patterns of our lives, the ups and downs of our existence—there are micro and macro waves all around us. We're riding the representation of energy, and that's kind of what we do. That’s what life is.

Everything is wavelengths. That's how energy is. It moves through the universe and it’s either a particle or a wave. We're basically riding an invisible energy form through the medium of water. We ourselves are also a collection of vibrations that are attracted to each other and that make up ourselves. 

I'm realizing that my reality is created between my ears. My reality is inside my head. I don't know why we're here. I think it's really to experience our own consciousness. This is kind of how I see it.

It’s like an act of Leela – it's playfulness and creation.

What I’ve boiled it down to is: we're all wave riders. Our lives are wavelengths.