Taken things for granted (a.k.a what hazy days teach me)
There are things in life that we take for granted.
To list everything would take me wayy too long; so for now, I'll just concentrate on these past few hazy days...
1. Sunshine
I realise that I've taken for granted the brightly shining sun. With the haze, all I could see was a giant pinkish-orange coloured ball up in the sky.
2. Blue skies
If I were a kid and I came to awareness two days ago, I'll go: "The skies are grey / white in colour. Blue? No wayy! That's not the colour of the skies!" (ok, ok.. not in so much nicely arranged words. But hey.. thoughts do get formed in a kid's head you know :P).
I miss the blue sky. This morning, I thought the haze is not as bad as the past couple of days. Although that's the case, I still couldn't see any blue colour in the sky.
3. How the weather really does affect my mood
This one surprised me actually. Hmm.. maybe I'm not as 'in-tuned' with my moods as I thought I was (a big boo-hoo to Yam).
I remember a song from The Carpenters: "Hanging around, Nothing to do but frown, Rainy days and Mondays always bring me down..."
Rainy days don't really affect me much - well, beside the at-times-mumbling of "bloody hell, I forgot the umbrella again!".
But now.. the hazy, gloomy weather seems to make ME gloomy. Macam, teramatlah tak ceria nya saya dua-tiga hari ni. Looking out the windows at work, I couldn't see much outside. (Made me realised that this is kinda how we look at life. When we couldn't see much beyond a few steps ahead of us, some may get depressed, gloomy, feeling down and unhappy.)
4. The rain
Somehow, these past few days, I've been hoping for some rain coming our way - hopefully to help ease the haze situation.
I guess I've always taken for granted that in Malaysia, we're gonna be having sunshine & rain all year long.
Wrong again, huh?
* * *
It's almost 4pm now (I started writing this post at 10.30am. Was distracted a few times :P), and it seems like there's some sunshine outside. It does look better compared to yesterday, alhamdulillah!
I certainly have not been feeling on top of the world for the past few days, but I'd like to take the haze as a trigger to appreciate the few things in life I've been blindly accepting for granted.
To list everything would take me wayy too long; so for now, I'll just concentrate on these past few hazy days...
1. Sunshine
I realise that I've taken for granted the brightly shining sun. With the haze, all I could see was a giant pinkish-orange coloured ball up in the sky.
2. Blue skies
If I were a kid and I came to awareness two days ago, I'll go: "The skies are grey / white in colour. Blue? No wayy! That's not the colour of the skies!" (ok, ok.. not in so much nicely arranged words. But hey.. thoughts do get formed in a kid's head you know :P).
I miss the blue sky. This morning, I thought the haze is not as bad as the past couple of days. Although that's the case, I still couldn't see any blue colour in the sky.
3. How the weather really does affect my mood
This one surprised me actually. Hmm.. maybe I'm not as 'in-tuned' with my moods as I thought I was (a big boo-hoo to Yam).
I remember a song from The Carpenters: "Hanging around, Nothing to do but frown, Rainy days and Mondays always bring me down..."
Rainy days don't really affect me much - well, beside the at-times-mumbling of "bloody hell, I forgot the umbrella again!".
But now.. the hazy, gloomy weather seems to make ME gloomy. Macam, teramatlah tak ceria nya saya dua-tiga hari ni. Looking out the windows at work, I couldn't see much outside. (Made me realised that this is kinda how we look at life. When we couldn't see much beyond a few steps ahead of us, some may get depressed, gloomy, feeling down and unhappy.)
4. The rain
Somehow, these past few days, I've been hoping for some rain coming our way - hopefully to help ease the haze situation.
I guess I've always taken for granted that in Malaysia, we're gonna be having sunshine & rain all year long.
Wrong again, huh?
* * *
It's almost 4pm now (I started writing this post at 10.30am. Was distracted a few times :P), and it seems like there's some sunshine outside. It does look better compared to yesterday, alhamdulillah!
I certainly have not been feeling on top of the world for the past few days, but I'd like to take the haze as a trigger to appreciate the few things in life I've been blindly accepting for granted.
posted by Yam @ 3:52 pm
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