Close Your Eyes.
|| Dawn Patrolling Ehukai Sandbar, February 12th, 2014 ||
"Wait?"
"What?"
"What's that you say?
"Close your eyes?"
"But?"
"How am I supposed to see the world's beauty with my eyes closed shut?"
Exactly!
You've nailed it spot on! Bullseye! With the way society flows in the present the perception of beauty has been so manipulated and misconstrued, that majority of the youths' upbringing has been encompassed around appearance. Appearance has been engraved into our minds that ideal beauty is projected superficially when, in fact; beauty in its purest state can only be felt, not seen.
To experience something beautiful, you must feel it.
Not see;
Feel.
I've contemplated life's beautiful moments that I've personally lived out and even the ones that I have vicariously lived through others. To say this as concisely as possible in a way that almost anyone who is anybody can understand; life has showed me beauty in the most simplest forms. In ways that are so raw I am so pleasantly caught off guard that I can't help but let a grin paint across my face. I find myself enjoying life's visual beauty when I least expect it; weather it be when I'm surrounded by enormous concrete walls and the hymn of cars and people engulf me as I sit on a city bench or when I'm riding down the bike path and there's so much salt in the air it blankets the skies and the sunlight reflects all the specks of the ocean air.
But those are just the times life shows me beauty, not when it makes me feel it.
Life offers itself to me when I least expect it when I close my eyes, open my mind and just listen to the world for what it is. When I stop judging ( because yes, I am human, I do judge, and it's not always positive nor negative. ) Just listen to the voices, the bees, the wind, the sound of soda cans opening, the hymn of movement, just stop talking stop waiting to respond and just listen with a genuine ear. Feel the air, the vibes, the rhythm of music, the souls around you and you'll know; this world has so much to offer.
Stop to smell the roses, touch them and to hear what surrounds them. We take life to seriously and we're constantly searching for something; weather it be love, adventure or even ourselves. Just get lost weather it be physically or mentally and maybe, just maybe, you'll find everything you (didn't know you) were looking for.
Until next time,
-Bye.
(Lately I've felt absolutely horrible about my ability to articulate my thoughts, thus making it incredibly challenging to write)
