The Little Things

Does anyone else feel this...?

There are just moments in time, when everything seems to stop or slow down, and you look at something, may it be the way a leaf is falling from the tree, or the way the clouds drift across the sky, and you just think, "That is so beautiful."

This happens to me a lot… I think I tend to see beauty in a lot of different forms, even in small, subtle and simple ways. And I am not saying I am "special" or what ever, it just really does happen a lot.

In a sense, it is quite satisfying, knowing that I am constantly surrounded by things that are like this.

It's like when people say, "Take time to enjoy the little things." I do. I enjoy the breeze, the sun, the way light shines through the trees.

It's like when you look up at the sky, in the afternoon, watching the clouds float slowly by, with all their fluffiness, with all the light reflecting off them in different ways, and it's just like… how can something so beautiful and so free be so far away?

I once asked my father, when I was about 5 years old I think, if it was possible to fly up to the clouds and catch one in a bottle. I want to take it home with me, I said. All dad said was that clouds were made of water vapour, and if I tried to catch one, all I would get is a bottle full of water.

But I guess… in my heart, I've always secretly wished that I really could catch or grab hold of a cloud.

Weird as it may seem to everyone, not that I give a damn what you guys may think about it, it's something that has always bugged me.

If there really is so much beauty in the world, is it possible to enjoy it all?

If we could live for ever, then of course. But I guess, all we can do in our time of existence is to really stop and smell the roses, so to speak.

It's just, some people don't do that, and maybe they are happy that way, but… if everyone did stop for a second to just admire the way something happens, like the way a rocket ship ascends into the sky with its trail of white smoke, then maybe everyone could find some form of happiness.

That's all from me. Say what you will, but that's just something I hold very dear to myself.