Monday, 24 September 2012

Day 74: A Simple Reminder


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.



(Incidentally, I was wearing a the blue I Am t shirt on the way home. Isn't it amazing how we have the ability to don on colours that reflect an element of the world around us?)

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