The sun sets on another day…
The darkness split, and for a moment there was light, then the fury of the storm came, and it came, and it came. Sunset was dark, foreboding, and full of white fire as lightning sprayed the skies. In the corner of the sky I could see the sunset, if only a little, and I smiled at the coming night.
There’s a moment of every day where I smile. Usually it is around sunset. Often it is every moment of the day. It’s hard to relay how I feel simply because I am always trying to find the upside. tonight as sunset began to be upon us it was already dark and the storm beat down everything around me. I watch trees bend in the wind and heard thunder roll constantly and consistently until all that there was was a growling rumble in the sky.
Previously I would have been with my other dog, Luna, and she would have been upset by the storm. Pepper and I sat and watched the storm and her indifference towards the fury outside made me feel good. Not because she was a dog and not scared of the storm but because she sat and watched and saw the wind blow the trees and the lightning flash and it wasn’t really indifference , it was fascination.
Perhaps that’s the secret. Maybe we would be far better off to be fascinated by the storms going on around us than worried about the sound or the light other things happening. Maybe it would be better if we realized the storm was just another moment and in that moment we understood that we too could learn from the storm.
I sat thinking about all the storms in my life and all the times that I was concerned with everything going on around me. Maybe instead of being concerned I should have just watched the storm and perhaps learned something. Now I sit here wondering what Pepper saw in the storm and if she learned anything from our moments together watching front after front pummel the countryside. I may never know but I enjoyed the evening.
So as the sun sets on another day , don’t look away from the storm. Instead learn from it and in the process try to enjoy the things that others fear. Maybe, just maybe, you might be or become the storm. Find your way to happiness everyday, storm or no storm, no matter what.
Sleep sweet, love life, and enjoy it all…