reality

Picture this:

You are walking along the street. There is a sidewalk. Cars make their presence known through vibrations and emissions. You are not alone; there are other pedestrians. Everything is calm. Normal. Until now. Paying attention to the world, you reach a new depth of calm. Suddenly it's not just green trees against a blue sky. Right now, this very instant, it is postcard perfect. The sight feels frozen in time. It is still and ideal. Landscape in the classic sense.

What changed? This is not the first time I experienced this. Nor will it be the last. I ask myself the same question over and over, hoping I will come up with something profound. I would feel better about not blaming this on my polarizing sunglasses. It makes sense to, though. No glare. Not from the leaves nor from the clouds. Could it be my mind?

Maybe my mind has frozen in time. Or just taken a snapshot of that image, that landscape. Those perfect colours held inside my mind's eye, until... Until I start thinking again. It was just a break from the trivialties of life. Now I'm back at it again. Wishing we can all co-exist in that higher plane of calm.