Funerals are a funny thing.
It makes me think that we take being alive for granted. We don't know how long we have in this world. Yet, to see people always complaining that they’re getting old while others don't even have the chance to experience being old makes me wonder how far off we are from what's really important.
We are so wrapped up with our wants, our goals, and our desires that we fail to enjoy the beauty of the mundane.
I would think about it sometime, after living around the world for years, how I missed having a home.
How I missed being nosy with my grandmother, our daily squabbles or our bonding over something as simple as sharing a cup of avocado smoothie.
I want to practice myself in seeing more of the now, in appreciating the smallest of things instead of worrying about something that hasn’t even happened yet or in regretting something in the past because I fail to appreciate it then.
So to be present, to be fantastically alive.
Sometimes I need to remind myself I’m not the only one that gets older, my grandmother too.
**We left early yesterday to attend a family emergency. My photo schedule is disrupted, my allocated time to edit is nonexistent, and the best of all I don't have a tripod with me.
Grandma, please be my human tripod for a couple of days????
I spent so much time staring at my window seat. I'll try to come up with images around that airplane wing!
Also, I got to witness the most beautiful colored sunset yet, in mint green and pink! Or maybe it's just the glass tint but who cares?
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Chris G Your picture is great, but I like the story even more. Thank you for sharing and making yourself vulnerable.