Explaining the inexplainable.

Have you ever felt time stop? Like everything that you are ceases to be, but the rest of the world is still running full speed ahead?

The other day I was sitting on a curb, just thinking to myself, when I paused everything. My mind shut down, my brain stopped working, I couldn't even collect enough energy to stand. All I could do was watch. You know, one can learn a lot from observing. I sat there, trying to make my body listen, but it didn't want to. It was like a dream... only not. Sitting there, the rest of the world busied itself with daily tasks. Time stopped, but only for me. As I watched, something hit me. I started to notice all the women with their shopping bags, the men and their sharp business suits and blackberrys, teenagers constantly on their cell phones. They were all on a mission, all in a hurry. By this time, I had begun to see things I would have never seen before; a stray dog pawed at a garbage can nearby, hundreds of cracks lined the sidewalk. It was like a teaching, a lesson. How many people these days stop to look around them, if only for a second? How many kids do you see actually interacting with the people they're with? Nobody stops to smell the roses anymore. It's sad to see everyone so wrapped up in a virtual world, or a place far from reality. Aren't we supposed to enjoy the time we have? How can we do this if we are living in a life full of materialisic and unreal things? Look around you, what do you see? What do want?


So, time flies. Sooner or later we're going to have to face the life we've been given. And what a blessing that is in itself! We were forgiven so that we could lead honest, whole lives. Sometimes I wish that I could stop time forever, live in my thoughts and dreams. But you know, the truest thing we will ever know is the present, and what is at hand. Put your cell phones down and open your eyes! There's a new adventure within reach.

"What if there’s a bigger picture?
What if I’m missing out?
What if there’s a greater purpose, I could be living right now...
Outside my own little world.
Put Your light in my eyes and let me see, that my own little world is not about me." -Matthew West

-Lindsey Lehua