The leaves start out as shoots, like little buds ready to explode, and then one morning you wake up and those little buds have exploded into an awesome neon green eruption of colour.
The leaves make me reminisce on the past winter. I can now say I too know what it feels like to live through those long, cold winter nights. But the long wait for warmth made spring so much more sweet. It made me enjoy and appreciate such simple things, like sitting out in the sun. Just sitting.
I can feel it now. I can feel the energy from the sun enter me. Such a beautiful feeling that I had never noticed before now. And whats amazing is that its always been there, but now I know. Maybe this is what living is about. Maybe 'life' is just a process of appreciation. In our youth, we grow up intoxicated with materialistic attitudes and our desires end up blinding us. And then with time we age, and understand the people and things that really matter and what we have consciously or subconsciously gained from them. And with that realization, we begin to appreciate the incredible-ness that is this living, breathing existance.
Its a nice thought. It comforts me. This post kinda drove this idea. Its wierd, because i wrote it :).
p.s. I know i contradict myself and my ideas quite frequently, but i dont really care. Everybody is allowed to have an opinion, but i want to have em all :D.
