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Life can be fully amazing. Full of joys, full of sadness, full of kindness of friends and strangers, prayers and hugs. You can be affected by what is around you. Whether it is the nuclear radiation in Japan or the warmth of the sun or the sunny disposition of that wonderful cashier who packed your milk and eggs at the green grocer today.

Life has a way of catching up with you. I sit here in my comfortable office looking at the last rays of sun as it disappears for a few hours (its past 9pm here and still light out), leaving behind a soft red afterglow in the cloudy sky and am amazed at how good life can be. How fortunate one is to live.

Perhaps the music I am listening to has something to do with this melancholy mood I am in. In case you're wondering what I am listening to, give this a listen.


That was a video I came across on facebook. The pictures on their own are awesome. The music makes it that much better I think. 

Perhaps it is what I am reading that makes me feel so. Some of you may have heard of Derek K Miller. Some of you might not have. But what he has written on his blog is truly thought provoking. If you feel like life is getting you down or that the world is bearing down on you or you feel like no one cares about your problems, give that a read. Even if you don't feel that way, give that a read. I have mentioned this before... the world is a lot bigger and more complex that we give it credit for. There is a lot out there that is worse. And we find a way of making our insignificant problems larger than they need to be in the grand scheme of things.

So take a moment, take a deep breath, look out the window, stare at the dark clouds forming and re-forming and pause. Smile a little. Think of all that is good in your life. Think of all that you have seen that is worse.

As for myself, I am going to read for a bit and think about what to write on a wedding card (my friend is getting married at the end of the month). Or what to say to a little newborn who is not here yet (my friends are having a baby towards the end of the year). Or perhaps, I will just go lie in my bed and look out the window at the clouds that are forming and re-forming as I did when I was a child on the terrace of my home in another country in another era when life was, just as beautiful as it is today.
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