Today was beautiful. I'm getting back into shape after the last three weeks or so were crap for training (reasons mostly are due to travel, between Albany and MN). But things are back on track. The whole 90's and humid is killer though.
However, at the end of the run, it just started raining. And it felt so good, just letting it wash over me, cleaning the sticky sweat off with something so pure in a sense. I know its not really, but the cold of it against the skin after that run, and feeling it drip off my face, gives it something more than what it is. And the lightning started. Oh the lightning. Nothing that came towards the ground really, but stayed in the clouds. And lit up the sky.
The drive back it got more intense, as I drove towards the center of the storm. There is something about driving into the storm. A few times a minute, the whole sky would light up, like a bomb went off. There is nothing so beautiful. It was pretty dark, almost nine at night, and then in a heartbeat, a yellow, blue, or red flash, now and then mixed with streaking blue lights flickering across.
And this is why I live. This beauty that surrounds these every day things. Its hard for me to not be happy with my life, when I can see this and just get lost in it. I've taken my licks a lot lately, but who hasn't, and I'm still alright. And that's what matters isn't it? You get knocked down, but I don't let it keep me down, because all these little, insignificant things that happen to me are just that, insignificant. Who cares about these things. This life is about these little beautiful moments, and I'm content to take them, and leave the rest. Because when its over, all we have is our moments.
Where the title comes from:
Human by The Killers
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