Well, I guess...
I basically came home yesterday, got into bed and slept...
Today I woke up in a winterland
It's been an interesting one, though sadly none of the snow has actually settled, but being outside when snow is falling really makes you appreciate the little things in life. If we're honest, we don't often even really consider snow all that much - it just isn't something we have to deal with very often - and sometimes even when it does settle, we just see it as an excuse to get extra time off, while infrastructure struggles to keep up.
I invite you to just drop anything it is you're doing right now and just think, for a minute, about the little things in life. If it's snowing outside where you are, then just go outside for a minute, find somewhere open, and take it in. If it isn't snowing, then find a clear night, and just find a place to lay down and look up at the sky.
It's all too easy to get bogged down in everything life throws at you. Things build up and up and up until eventually it seems impossible to deal with everything. When one task is completed, three more take its place. No matter how much we do, there will always be more we need to do.
But what if we take a step back, a moment to ignore everything weighing us down. What if, instead of trying to throw everything we have at something that won't ever change, we choose to deviate from that path, to diverge from everything that is normal and do something so unorthadox most people would consider it insane?
What if, instead of living life as we are, we choose to live in the moment?
Being outside today, in the snowfall, I was struck by just how beautiful it was. A place I had been hundreds of times before suddenly seemed to have a completely different atmosphere. No longer was it just "some place tourists go for some reason." I began to really appreciate it for what it was. For the first time, I really saw it.
Living in the moment won't make your problems go away, but it makes the mountains we all face into more of a mole hill. When you take the time out, and really see life for what it is in this way, it makes everything else feel insignificant. When you live in the moment, it becomes more than just survival, because we are finally able to appreciate what it means to exist. Living in the moment is living alive!
I'm gonna end this post with a short poem I wrote a couple years back, so here it is I guess...
Woke up in a winterland, snow everywhere I see,
It feels so wierd saying this but finally I feel free.
With all this stuff around me then I can go and make,
Whatever my heart desires, albeit only fake.
No normal day, outside I see,
The snow, I think: I've found the key!
This strange white substance lets me be,
Master of my own destiny.
But when the rain clouds fade away,
And when the sun comes out to play,
Then this white snow will melt away,
And leave just memories of this day...
But what if we take a step back, a moment to ignore everything weighing us down. What if, instead of trying to throw everything we have at something that won't ever change, we choose to deviate from that path, to diverge from everything that is normal and do something so unorthadox most people would consider it insane?
What if, instead of living life as we are, we choose to live in the moment?
Being outside today, in the snowfall, I was struck by just how beautiful it was. A place I had been hundreds of times before suddenly seemed to have a completely different atmosphere. No longer was it just "some place tourists go for some reason." I began to really appreciate it for what it was. For the first time, I really saw it.
Living in the moment won't make your problems go away, but it makes the mountains we all face into more of a mole hill. When you take the time out, and really see life for what it is in this way, it makes everything else feel insignificant. When you live in the moment, it becomes more than just survival, because we are finally able to appreciate what it means to exist. Living in the moment is living alive!
I'm gonna end this post with a short poem I wrote a couple years back, so here it is I guess...
Woke up in a winterland, snow everywhere I see,
It feels so wierd saying this but finally I feel free.
With all this stuff around me then I can go and make,
Whatever my heart desires, albeit only fake.
No normal day, outside I see,
The snow, I think: I've found the key!
This strange white substance lets me be,
Master of my own destiny.
But when the rain clouds fade away,
And when the sun comes out to play,
Then this white snow will melt away,
And leave just memories of this day...
