A New Perspective

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

                For this walking journal, I decided to go on the same walk that I did for walking journal number five. This time, however, I went in the early morning. At seven o’clock on campus, all is still. Very few people roam campus at this time because most of them are still peacefully sleeping after a long night full of activities. So as I left my room, all I noticed was the fresh and delicate sunlight that peaked through the tall window and covered the crevasses of the pod. And as I continued down the hall, I felt a sense of serenity. As I breathed in the still air, I felt at ease. And leaving the front doors, it felt amazing to have the cool crisp air touch my skin and hear the birds chirp in their early morning delight. Crossing over the bridge I kept looking at how the sun hit the campus and gave it a new day of life. All that I saw, even in its least perfect form seemed so perfect as if it were supposed to always look so shabby or new. All seemed in its perfect place. And as I strolled around Manzanita Lake, all was… I don’t even know how to describe the feeling that it placed in me. It was as if all the world’s problems did not exist.

                Through all of this, I started to think about the walk I took where I noticed all of the advertisements on this path. Suddenly it became clear to me that during the hustle and bustle of the day, I am distracted by the fluff that is put into human life—advertisements, political ads, petty arguments, work, television.  But in the morning, none of that seemed to matter. My surrounding in the beauty and perfection of life itself is what consumed my thoughts and feelings. It was really nice to just forget everything else around me.