Greentea wrote:
Yes, today I did realize that they're not better off than me. The location was lovely, so I got up very early and arrived over an hour before everyone. I sat at a coffee-shop by the sea with a cup of tea and browsed travel brochures. They all arrived panting at the last minute, did their politics act as best as they could, and left quickly. I strolled back to the car in peace.
And that was just the start of their day. All day, every day, they must reassure themselves by making the right noises to those around them.
An hour alone drinking tea, looking at the sea, brousing travel plans, it would drive any of them mad.
They would have to play loud music or something. They cannot do nothing, for as they say with fear,
"It was so quite I could hear myself think!"
Have you ever noticed that the waves just rock. Even when I sit still, I still rock with them within.
Like a gull skimming the waves you are seeing them as they are, and how they crash over and over against the beach. Gliding without effort above, you are free to watch, and dipping down, to feed on the wing. They wil ebb and flow, trapped in an endless cycle, grinding sand finer, you can ride the up drafts the morning thermals, and rise high.
They did well to even survive an hour in an unscripted world.
You are getting an eye for these things.
20 Dec 2007, 5:28 am
