A update on life: I wrote this a few hours back as a personal memo so its unedited.
I had just bused home, I had gotten off at my stop. I was
tired. It’s been a busy few days. Holding a biochemistry book in one
arm, and slinging my bag onto my back, with eyes half closed I
began to trudge home.
As I was waiting at the traffic light (it had
just turned green), I had with closed eyes, thrown my head back and when I
next opened them I saw the waxing moon above me. The sky was blue. It surprised
me. Never had this image seemed so vivid. I then realised that there was this breeze
blowing around me and like a painting, there were these creamy clouds in the
distance. There were trees – the vividest green I’ve seen after a long day in OGG. Bushes
poked out of domiciles in the distance and marigolds lay in the council plot to
my side. It seemed odd, and suddenly, for that single moment, I felt as if I
were some visitor from another planet looking at my world with new eyes.
The waxing moon, the trees, that strange breeze. Never had
the sky seemed to blue.
Blue.
The. Sky. Was. Blue.
I walked back down my street in a haze. I never often
realise it, but heading west, I could see the sun setting behind the church. Suddenly,
I realised that the cherry trees on my street had begun to bloom, and I saw a
sparrow form a silhouette on an upper branch in the dying rays. Builders yarned
among their machinery, and in the distance - behind quiet birdsong were the muted sounds
of cars from the main road.
These are the sights of everyday life. Yet I have been so focused
on school work, uni, assignments, tests that I have forgotten beauty of the everyday
world that I live in. So used was I to being indoors that I had forgotten the
vivid view of nature. To realise that every moment is filled with an
overwhelming sense of organic beauty. This is the world.
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