Ever so often I have to stop and remind myself that life is now. It’s obvious right, but I tend to forget. I wake up, I rush to work, I rush here, I rush there, I rush everywhere.
I do tend to stop to ponder beauty – the filmmaker in me is constantly looking for angles (I wrote angels…), shots…capturing moments, but as such I am an onlooker. I am the hidden camera, not the scene. With the years I allow myself to feel more, to step into the scenery and really be. Yet, there are days when I am still the onlooker. The point is: there are many times I stop to ponder beauty, but I forget to ponder all the other amazing things in the now. I am stressing, thinking ahead, planning, obsessing…at the same time I am doing things, but I am not aware of them. My mind is elsewhere. I don’t hear the sound of the rain, or feel the gentle draft, taste the honey still lingering on my lips, or sense the present moment. Yet, in that moment, in every moment, lies magic…
There is another point also and that is to really experience yourself and the people in your life in the present. This week I am focusing on me. Business ventures, blogs, what have you are all secondary – I come first (and of course giving myself a chance to breathe I got inspired for all the above…). As for the people in our lives we often become as used to them as to ourselves – they melt into the background. They become part of the scenery instead of being the scene. That’s why I always encourage time apart from your loved ones because you have a chance to miss them and think of all the things you love about them and love doing with them. It’s so easy to take people for granted and when you see them sit together and sulk about life (moan/complain) instead of exploring why you fell in love with them in the first place…friends and lovers alike (was it their passion for life? Your common interest in cooking? Your dreams to explore the world? Your views on politics? Your sense of creativity? And are you exploring those areas together? Doing things, creating things? Or are you just calling each other to talk about the weather?). Only when we realize time is limited does it seem we get off our lazy butts and really start taking in the magnificence of ourselves, a friend, a lover and life itself. Only then do we make the most of every moment. Without deadlines we grow complacent. We simply don’t appreciate what we have, we focus on issues that aren’t issues and we don’t use our time efficiently.
It’s like lovers: the day of parting never seemed so bitter-sweet as it’s the first time they decided to truly feel every moment of each other’s presence because they know it won’t last. Most people get cold feet at the mention of eternity and grab onto the moment with full awareness at the sight of death. So if you live every moment in the presence of death, you will, absurdly, fully live till eternity and beyond…
Jump out of bed in the morning and embrace life with a waowaoa whoom…even if it hurts at the time being for it shall pass if you every day embrace life, even if the floor is fucking freezing and the lights are out…dance whilst you can and life will surely dance with you….
Life is magical…
Every raindrop makes me sing and every light in the city makes me dance…
