Monsoons

Yesterday I was hanging out on the roof of my house, and if you have never done this before, do it, because it will blow your mind, or at least it blew mine. You see there was a lightening storm going in the distance. I've seen plenty of thunderstorms and lightening storms in my life, but for some reason this one struck me dead in the heart. I guess it might be due to the fact that I have never really taken the time to just sit back for an hour or so and watch it. I'm always just looking at a storm for a few minutes, enjoying it, and then going about my business. Not this time though. Something was different this time and yet it made it so perfect.

The storm must have been a couple miles away from me, but it didn't really matter. It was the overall environment of the whole thing that was truly captivating. There were mountains in front of the clouds and every time lightening rained down it looked as if there were bombs going off in the distance. I sort of used my imagination a bit and put myself in a WWII scenario in London where I was actually watching Nazis bomb the town in the distance. Regardless it was a prolific experience. The point I am trying to make with all of this? People need to start slowing down and taking life millisecond by millisecond.

You have 24 hours in a day, but how many of those hours do you actually appreciate? Take this a step further and ask yourself the same thing with minutes. How about seconds? How about milliseconds? Etc. Etc. I don't know about you, anonymous reader, but I am always rushing around and planning things. Very rarely do I actually just sit down and do nothing for awhile. I never just sit and listen to the wind, or lay in the dirt and watch the clouds go by, which I did while I was on my roof. People get so wrapped up in their life that it can become hard to breath. My advice is to take a step back every now and again, breath, and just look around you at all the stuff you take for granted.