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In this Moment

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April 2, 2014


I’m at a gas pump, pumping gas into my minivan. I became distracted by the wind as it rushed between the cars. The breeze glided across my face as if it was reaching out to grab my attention.

I look beyond the fuel pumps rapidly climbing numbers as they tick off into the twenty-dollar range, and still climbing towards the 50’s. Some major oil company’s liquid gold dumping into my thirsty fuel tank. I follow the breeze’s direction and give the area attention from which it came. I begin to become mesmerized by life, it’s so beautiful outside right now. The sky is pale blue with touches of scarring thin cirrus clouds scattered about the vast celestial sphere. The green trees are highlighted off god’s canvas. In this moment, my life is refreshed.

I can feel the thump of the bass from the music that is playing next to me from a cars open window but I pay no mind to what’s going on. The little vibrations from the sound waves brings me peace more so then the annoying sounds that are coming out of the window. I’m not that old, yet, to be complaining about today’s music.

I think deeply as I zone out, hypnotized by sunshine, that I see almost everyday. How is it keeping my attention for so long? This is the sunshine state but rarely have I appreciated days like this. When the days are cool and breezy. It’s a rare treat that shouldn’t go unnoticed, but it does.

Except for today.

I know that his is just a gas station however; I have to take advantage of these moments that I discover my own existence. When I realize how lucky I am to witness a beautiful point in time, in the most unlikely of places. I should pay my respect to mother natures beautiful gift because these moments are futile and I could lose my prospective at the same time that she allowed me to observe life’s God-given-ability to shrink my problems and allow me to realize that my problems could be worse inside this beautiful world of ours.

In moments like this I realize life is an amazing gift and nearly everything in my sight has a time and place for why it’s there. I appreciate the fact I can see the trees swaying, when those who are blind can only imagine the beauty in the moving trees. I learn to love the music that is playing from the car stereo next to my gas pump because I am able to hear it, unlike someone who is deaf. I take in the smell of petrol that is following through into my gas tank and I am thankful that I have the ability to use a sense that may be sterile for some.

If I narrow my view I can see the plight around me. I see the person with a written sign begging for money. I observe the lady putting in three –dollars and sixty-three cents of gas, exactly one gallon of gasoline, just to make it to work. I hear arguments around me about people’s life troubles. But in this moment I’d rather see us from a far. In this moment I see us as equals in a world that has beauty and so much pain. In this moment I am alive to write to the world what I saw on this day. And in this moment I can hope that like I am now, all of us are going to be okay.


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