Some people are like the ocean. They are better experienced from a distance. Some people love the ocean differently, up close and personal. I prefer to look at it from a distance. I like the idea of it. Some people are like that.
Some people are just the opposite, though. Some people you hate in theory but, when you meet them, you have to admit that there is something incredible about them.
If you look too hard for a particular thing in people, it becomes all you can see. You cannot see past it, whether it is there or it is not there. Sometimes all you notice is the lack of something. This is especially sad when you're not even sure what that something is. Everywhere around you, it is missing. You might be able to find it, if someone can just tell you what it is.
Sometimes, even in our quiet contentment, there is a shadow of sadness. We are not sad, but we know sadness. Sometimes we pick sadness up and look at it, like a curious thing, strange and beautiful. It's okay to do this sometimes, when sadness is an object for you, but you must be careful. You will think you've put it back down, but you'll discover later that it is in your pocket. You won't remember putting it there, and you'll start to place it on the shelf. Later you'll find that it's still in your hand. You must have gotten distracted. Eventually you'll realize that it is always with you, that you can't get rid of it. You'll start to wish you'd never picked it up in the first place. Usually it is only when you fill your hands with other things that you will, without realizing you've done it, put it down somewhere and forget about it. For a while.
Some people are like the mountain peak, they are distant and difficult to approach. Many have been seriously injured trying to reach the peak. They had to be rescued by the sherpas.
Some people are the sherpas. Thank goodness for that.
Hello, friends. How are you today?
Later. Love.
