Half Moon

So last night on the way home, I walked the "old way". It's been months since I walked that path always busy with cars and trucks, always blaring with horns, always smoggy, always smelling like a room filled with toxins that can kill in seconds. But the beauty of it lies at nighttime when overhead one sees the trains come and go. On rare occasions one can chance upon two trains coming towards each other, meeting for a brief moment that it seems like they are exchanging quick hellos and goodbyes coz in less than a minute, they are separated again, going on separate ways and never looking back until the cycle repeats itself.

At dusk the final red of the day disappears slowly down the horizon. One eagerly searches for something celestial for a bit of poetry in a night that is soon to come. One looks up and finds the moon, still in its golden splendor despite being halved.

Airplanes

And so I got my first airplane ride this year last Valentine's Day. There's always the feeling of excitement when one sees land from up above. It reminds me of aerial surveys I only get to read about in archaeology books. It has always been a dream to actually experience doing aerial survey, I am sure to have adrenaline rush and to have my heart pounding fast since honestly, I am a bit of an acrophobic.

There's always a peaceful feeling sweeping over one so preoccupied with many things when one sees clouds of different forms. There's always that feeling of becoming a god, who sees everything from above. There's always that feeling of lightness, as if one is finally free from gravity. And there's always that overwhelming feeling of being a bit tad lucky to be able to witness these wonderful things.