Written by Ordinary Extra – May 24, 2023. Just to be alone.
A morning that started warm and tender suddenly turned. Like all of my plans were trashed, burned.
Information came in like a storm and my reaction exploded before I could pause.
I was mad and I circled the wagon to figure my options, the reaction’s cause.
How many walls are there and why do they feel so close?
Just to be alone, in silence, then do as I please, is what I want most.
As I grit my teeth, composed, or at least the answer I sold to me.
I staggered but looked up and saw, the way out, becoming the escapee.
Concord, NH at just the right time. Like the skies stayed open just long enough for me to escape.
We live in an age where comparisons are being made 24/7 whether we know it or not. Social media, TV, Internet ads, and many more outlets bombard us all with image. Image as in, this is how the perfect product, or the perfect moment, or even any product in the perfect setting, can make life, well, pretty near perfect.
You know what I am talking about. Pictures of how awesome other people’s life is, at least that is how it is made to look. At some level we all get caught up in the “keeping up with the Joneses” mentality. And we think out loud or to ourselves, “Well, my yard, my vacation, my this, or our that doesn’t like nearly as good as theirs”.
So, I am here to spread some ordinary extra moments. These are things that happen in an average day in my little world. Some might resonate, some may not. But the point is, be happy and thankful for what you do have. And sometimes that might just be the ability to think, to breathe, to work, to love, to feel, and so on. There is beauty all around us.
Just an ordinary day with an ordinary extra moment mixed in.
That is a wonderful picture of the sky.