I was walking late night at the downtown boulevard, just after the busy city started to rest on darkness. Only few illuminations from the grand buildings and from the dim lights of posts lit the street - oh, that was so 1990's vibe when every streetlight glowed in warmed yellow, and that hit me so hard. I remember the days thought me, as nowhere soul, chose simplicity. I was like fed-up and tired of noise, speed and chaos of the city, though I am living in the nearest province but it is really no longer a province-like vibes. I longed for a place very closed to nature. It was like I wished if only I had remote province from my roots either from maternal or paternal kin then I will go that far because I really wanted the serenity, purity, and simplicity of the countryside in the rural places. Until one day, I was started to longing for nature and provinces.
When times came that I was able to visit the northern and southern provinces, it instantly fulfills the missing piece in my heart - the calmness and simplicity. Although they were momentary but the feelings made a lot of perpetual healings on me. It is magical feeling when going for the first time to places were a stranger soul is welcome to feel the belongingness in an underrated rustic place and your spirit easily liked it - that was happened to me. Mornings can be slow and I like it. Making my times slow and finding the joy in slower living gives me more times to feel and seize up the moment, feel the peace, breathe and appreciate them and I achieve quite heart. Times gently run from sun up to midday when the towering abundant trees, their lush vivid green leaves form cover against the high mid-noon sun. And I want to breathe profoundly where only me is encapsulating the moment of the found elusive "world peace" that city life deprives me. Evergreen surrounds, strange eerie sounds of the birds' call that echoes, the rustling noise when wind whistles through the leaves and twigs, and the crunching dried leaves under my feet walking through the bare skin of the earth, these, and the gentle breeze, they are my new found friends. In a quite forest, where human voice is soft like whispered, everything is tranquility but its enchanting beauty speaks volume.
The seven 'o clock in the morning in the bustling mega city is full of noise from the blows of horn from vehicles, police men blowing a whistle ahead of the building up busy and rush hours, and hurrying people trying to make it on time at work. In broad light, everything was put on the spotlight in the early morning that turned warm - these are stressful. In the countryside, the seven 'o clock in the morning is living gently and it allows you enough time to live by it. You have times to appreciate the beauty of the beginning of the day even in its small things. It is such as quite day and the clock slows down the days to seize up our moment under the broad light at noon, this is our connection to nature. Up until you get there, you will understand the slow life and lay back would give you the most sought serenity, feel richer when you spend the moment longer, and you will say happy you found it.
Until the night in city lighted its streetlights glowed in warmed yellow but they bring lethargy on me. In the busy roads when daytime, there are some spots seemed like stray souls in the evening with no enough light illuminating the quite narrow streets that lively and loud when under the sun. Even beyond the lights from the towering skyscrapers is no to see the stars scattered in the dark skies, and the moon too is hardly to find. And for some reason I feel this is darker than the night in the province with just moon lighting the evening that reflects its brightness in the leaves like it is waving. Even though the sky is dark but the stars are vividly flickering. The sounds of crickets and frogs and rustling of the leaves from the trees are melody that keeps the night in tune. These are things to see that bring back my childhood memories that now I want to pause, feel them long, and enjoy them again. If we can just stop rushing and start enjoying the moments, let us do it because a quite heart and a simple life are the greatest treasures until one day it will feel us complete.