It seems like forever since I’ve looked at the sky.
Yet I’ve caught myself in two occasions looking up at the sky these past couple days. I know it’s there. That I can be sure of. But for some reason, these two times I’ve lingered. Just gazed into its deep serene blue and black swatches, disguising itself as opaque yet knowingly transparent.
The first time, I was on the ski lift. I got a good hour and a half of boarding with just myself, so there were times on the ski lift where I had nothing to do but observe. I glanced up at the sky and didn’t realize I was staring for a good 5 minutes until I was almost at the top of the mountain. I remember the moment as…calm. It was that simple. The organic white against a canvas of blue, it felt like I was reading poetry. There were no words but I still understood its meaning. I’m never that close to the clouds, in a physical sense, because I was at the peak of the mountaintop and on the ski lift that raised me even higher than that. I thought I could touch them. Grab a piece and carry it down with me. Clouds seem dense from a distance, but everyone knows that they’re deceiving, just like the opaque of the sky. Those two are so much alike.
The second time was after I got home. I’ve been thinking a lot about the universe. Not in any specificity, but more of trying to grasp just how infinitely large it is, and how we are specks of nothing in comparison, yet life seems so important here. So once I parked, I got out of my car like I usually do, but this time my eyes focused on Orion’s Belt. The sky is always clearer in the winter out here. I haven’t named constellations in years, but I don’t think people can forget Orion’s Belt. Three small lights visible in an infinite dark, yet it’s only dark because we cannot see the light. But the light is there. Billions and billions of galaxies that contain billions of stars fill up the blackness above us. All that light, yet our eyes can’t see a damn thing. Maybe that’s how life here is sometimes too.
I gotta remember to take a break and look up every once in a while. The sky puts everything in perspective, for me at least.
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