~The Road Less Taken~

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

i don't know if i've blogged about this before. feels like i have.

for me a great scene (in movies, in books, in real life) needs a touching or thought-provoking moment, but also a good setting. no point having a sincere, heartwarming parent-to-child love scene in a fast-food place.

rarely in my life have i had the good fortune to stumble upon such a scene.

it may not seem very significant, but when you see it, it makes the world just stop, for that instant, for you to indulge in that moment, and see things as they are.

when you do see it, the feeling is quite indescribable. it's a sense of serenity and warmth and mostly of happiness, but it could so easily be so much more than that.

it's hard to explain online, but hopefully you'll get what i mean.

i would have loved to take a picture of it if i could, but i wasn't quite courageous enough to ask (it would have sounded very random).

i experienced one such moment in primary 5, when i was talking about things with one of my close friends in the school garden. just the two of us alone, looking out into the distance and just talking.

the setting was absolutely perfect.

you know the kind of weather where the wind blows rather gently across the area, making you feel comfortable, coupled with an overcast sky, with some grey cloud cover but not enough to make the place dark and gloomy, and at the same time not threatening any rain?

that's my dream setting. it doesn't come around too often, and when it does, it's usually too short. but when it lasts long enough for something almost magical to happen, it's quite special.

in fact, it doesn't need to be a magical moment. even a simple, heartfelt, normal, everyday scene we take for granted can make us feel good inside, if we bother to stop and realise that we do take it for granted, and truly enjoy the moment.

it occured once 5 years ago. it occured again today.

it was after cca, at about 6pm. for once we had ended early, so we were all packing up and ready to go off.

a few of the guitar guys were sitting at the steps at the raffles square, so i decided to go over and have a look.

i realised it was eugene (our guitar ensemble ccal) and marcus (our campus superstar and XD singer!) practising a few songs (apparently for something tomorrow), together with some other guys just sitting around.

however, after a while, it was just eugene and marcus left, and so i sat there, watching and listening to eugene play the guitar while marcus sang the songs. (he's pretty darn good, of course.)

and for the 5-7 minutes i sat there, listening to the songs, i felt that feeling of warmth and just an overall sense of peace.

that isn't an emo feeling, but this post sure is turning out to be.

it was just so nice to listen to and watch in a way.

and of course the setting was that cloudy, windy one.

now you see why asking to take a picture of it would have been rather paiseh. it would be so random to suddenly ask to take a picture of them.

but my gut instinct was that it would make a really good picture. it would have said a lot. (at least, to me.)

haha i'm really prone to feeling bouts of emotion about really normal things aren't i?

but i guess that's better than no emotion at all. better to have lived well than to have lived long.

I stopped to rest at 10:15 PM

Two roads diverged,and I-
took the one less taken...