Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Cloudy

I look up at the sky and see nothing but gray. Clouds obscure my vision, the sun does not shine. The world has lost its color. I see no vividness in my surroundings. Everything is just gray.

There were times when i was most happy in cloudy weather, the time when others would feel depressed. (I've always found it interesting how moods are affected by the weather.) I found the sun oppressive and unrelenting. I would curse my unfortunate location on the globe. I was tempted to shut myself in my nice, comfy house. (Un)fortunately, men were not made to live such a life.

We are creatures of the day, after all. We are beings of light. As i grew, so did my understainding. Evolution, if you believe in it, has adapted us to function in daylight. We're to move in the day, work in the day, play and talk and eat in the day. So i learned to love daylight and sunshine, wonderful dawns and sunsets when the sun looks like a molten coin in the sky. I craved sunlight and i breathed it in. The sun gives me life as it does the Earth. With it, i clearly see the world around me.

Not today, though. Today, there's no sun. The reds are not as red, the world is not as beautiful.

Somewhere, the sun is shining. I hope, in time, it will shine on me again.

When I'm worthy.