today is another day for many of us to be still under the covid19 lockdown orders from our governments, and i sense a darkness floating over the hearts of so many people who are feeling cooped up, depressed, living a "no fun" life with everything closed or closed off...
life is a bummer right now...what is there fun to look forward to right now?
can't go for a hike in the park, or a walk on the beach, or go up to the mountains and snowboard, or catch a few waves with the surfboard, or go the the gym and let off some steam, or go to the community pool and catch some rays of sunshine, or go out to your favorite restaurant and try their new dish recipe, or go to the botanic garden and meditate under the plush trees, or go over to your friend's new house warming party, or enjoy your sister's wedding she's been planning for her whole life, or take your lady out on the town dancing, or go to an arts and craft festival and find some new beautiful artwork to hang in the home, or go watch your son play in his soccer tournament, or have a date night and go to the newest movie release, or put on the tux and head out to see the opera at the theatre, or take your doggie to the dog park and let him run and play with the other doggies, or fly to a tropical island on your dream vacation you have been saving up for years, or play some on 3-on-3 basketball, or go out and see your favorite local band rock out on stage, or just chill with a brew and watch your favorite baseball team or tennis player on the telly, or go to the beach and watch a sunset, or stay up all night and stargaze at the milk way and then see the sunrise, or take a cool weekend drive a few hours away and stay in a getaway motel for the night...
but that is all just complaining...
yeah, maybe it is true that life is a bummer right now...but look at what you have right now, not what you do not have...you are alive, you are breathing...so breathe in, and breath out, and deeply enjoy those breaths, and be thankful you have what many people did not get to wake up and experience today: life and living!!
so what do you have to look forward to right now? you have everything, just cherish the sound of sunshine falling down, and the glowing smells of nature on the breeze, and all the colorful graces your body gets to feel...you are alive, embrace it...enjoy the simple basic fundamental of not being dead...love what you have right now, live your best day today, and tomorrow will be better, i guarantee it...
and right now, i cannot wait to be able to get back out into nature, stand before this waterfall and listen to its roaring green silence...and feel this calm connection to the universe again, one that is so very difficult to discover right now while hiking on paths of concrete alongside noisy cars, with their bright lights underneath even brighter street lamps overhead, with only surrounding views of planted trees and sculpted landscapes among buildings and pavement...but i am alive, and the sunshine continues to fall down on me...it is a beautiful day...
"it's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, i feel good, and no one's gonna stop me now...it's a beautiful day, i feel good, i feel right, and no-one, no-one's gonna stop me now...sometimes i feel so sad, so sad, so bad...but no-one's gonna stop me now, no-one. it's hopeless, so hopeless to even try"― queen (freddie mercury), it's a beautiful day