I Love the Outdoors and Nature
It's very beautiful outside tonight. I always think it's beautiful outside at nighttime though. I live in a part of the city where there are so very many trees, and a couple streams, and woodsy areas and little animals about. The sky is open and uninterrupted by tall buildings. At night it's very reviving to take a long walk, at any time of the year. During the day as well, but my favourite time is in the dark.
Tonight everything is covered in snow, and the air is cold, the wind gently alive. The trees are exposed without their leaves and the dark silhouettes of the branches stand out against the sky and the streetlamps. The texture of the ground beneath the soles of footwear is slippery and interesting, though not really dangerous. The individual snowflakes packed together sparkle like billions of diamonds as one walks through the dimly lit streets.
There is still an outdoors and nature in the city, especially here.
Tonight I felt especially appreciative of it and just wanted to talk about it a little bit, briefly.
I walk home from work, or from reading a book in a favourite cafe, and it's a beautiful experience every day if you allow yourself to be aware and to be present, drink in everything and be connected. You can be as poor as you can be but all of this belongs to you, as it does to everyone, every creature, especially humans because we have the capacity to appreciate. Nature doesn't belong to us in a possessing sense, but everything belongs to us as a selflessly given gift from That Which Is, during the moment we are experiencing it. The experience is mine. The sparkling of the diamond-dust snow in the moonlight is mine, during every moment I am aware and drinking in this experience. These belong to everyone.
I feel gratitude to be part of it, especially on these long walks, thinking not only about the functioning of my eyes and the physical capabilities of my body to walk and breathe in the cold reviving air, and the pleasure of my lungs really really breathing, but the details of what I'm experiencing.
This isn't really a story, I just felt like talking about it.
Tonight everything is covered in snow, and the air is cold, the wind gently alive. The trees are exposed without their leaves and the dark silhouettes of the branches stand out against the sky and the streetlamps. The texture of the ground beneath the soles of footwear is slippery and interesting, though not really dangerous. The individual snowflakes packed together sparkle like billions of diamonds as one walks through the dimly lit streets.
There is still an outdoors and nature in the city, especially here.
Tonight I felt especially appreciative of it and just wanted to talk about it a little bit, briefly.
I walk home from work, or from reading a book in a favourite cafe, and it's a beautiful experience every day if you allow yourself to be aware and to be present, drink in everything and be connected. You can be as poor as you can be but all of this belongs to you, as it does to everyone, every creature, especially humans because we have the capacity to appreciate. Nature doesn't belong to us in a possessing sense, but everything belongs to us as a selflessly given gift from That Which Is, during the moment we are experiencing it. The experience is mine. The sparkling of the diamond-dust snow in the moonlight is mine, during every moment I am aware and drinking in this experience. These belong to everyone.
I feel gratitude to be part of it, especially on these long walks, thinking not only about the functioning of my eyes and the physical capabilities of my body to walk and breathe in the cold reviving air, and the pleasure of my lungs really really breathing, but the details of what I'm experiencing.
This isn't really a story, I just felt like talking about it.
By:
Nyxii
Age:
22-25
,
Female
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