Mind Opener
The sun only has one task as it rises in the morning and that's to travel as far as it can west before it is blocked out by the perfect wall called the horizon. When watching the sunset I often find myself lost in its natural beauty. Trying to find a message it must be striving to give me. The past couple weeks when I have been watching the sunset I haven't noticed anything but what I could see but, two days ago something hit me. Before I tell you this I want you t watch a video I found on YouTube of a sunset that is almost identical to the one I watched two nights ago and think about more than what you just see.
"Reno Nevada Summer Sunset" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVXo_2xgOYk
When I watched the sunset the other night it started off just as the others before had. With the array of colors highlighting the blue sky in the background. Then as the sun would fall the rays of purples, reds and oranges would fall with it. Then as the sun was almost gone behind the mountains it hit me, the sun had already rose that day and it couldn't change that. It was already in the past. Five minutes before it was falling behind the mountains couldn't be changed either. All the sun could do was move forward and change what it was about to do. This made me think about life and how no one can go back and change what they have done in the past but no matter what you can choose what you do in the future. I looked it up on the Internet and found a perfect quote for this--
"No one can go back and start a new beginning but anyone can start today and make a new ending" - Maria Robinson.
This quote is exactly what the sunset showed me that night when it was falling behind the mountains and things were looking down as it got darker and darker. That you can always pop back up and rise again like the sunset getting brighter... and brighter...
It's weird how the change in the sky is so subtle yet so profound in less than three minutes. Great analogy.
ReplyDeleteI love how you compared the sunset to life. You're right though, you cant changed your past so that's why we shouldn't focus on the past.
ReplyDeleteI love watching the sunset, the video you had attached was interesting, but I love the way you had described the sunset as highlights and it was just an amazing image in my head. The quote was deep thinking also
ReplyDeleteThat's so true. We can never change our past but we can sure change our future. Have you seen a cloudy sky with a sunset at work? It's a really beautiful sight.
ReplyDeleteWow, that's a good comparison between the sunset and life, it's great! Great blog.
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