Hi everyone, just me again

The storm's passed and it's boringly dark and quiet outside now. Despite their destructive properties, I love storms. They're exciting. What is it about natural occurences that make them just as watchable (if not more so) than your favourite tv show? Think about how you can just sit for hours watching a fire burn down or how incredible it is to watch the colours change and move in a sunrise or sunset. Last year when I was down the coast with some friends I stayed up all night just so I could watch the sunrise over the ocean. It was something I had always wanted to do. As it happened, the sun ended up rising behind the headland so I'll have to do it again another time. It was still worth it. If you just watch constantly it seems like nothing's changing but you look away for a few minutes and then back again and all the colours have moved and developed. You can stare in awe and gasp and look around for someone to share it with but there's nothing you can do to capture the moment. And you can look at as many pretty photographs as you want but they can never convey the panoramic breathtaking-ness off actually being there. Yet here I am, trying to explain it with words. There's no way I can really express it but I'm sure you all know what I mean.

This is why people sit around and bemoan today's technology: how it keeps us inside and stops us from enjoying the beauty of nature and dulls our senses and all the other arguments that your dad pulls out when he wants you to help him out in the garden or play with a neglected outdoor pet. (Actually, my dad rarely says anything like this but I have this picture of a generic dad saying such things, so I suppose many dads have) I usually only agree slightly with these contentions because I hold the seemingly strange notion that educational television shows actually educate and the information superhighway actually contains information. Call me crazy. However in this contemplative mood and with my current attitude toward the beauties of nature, perhaps if only for tonight I'm siding with Generic Dad. Only, of course, I'm still sitting here inside in front of a computer. I could take the computer outside to make a point, I guess, but I'm too lazy. Another benefit of time-saving technology.

I find it amusing that I'm usually in very introspective and contemplative moods when I sit to write on here because for the most part I'm quite a light-hearted, almost flippant, person. This seems to be my channel for my melancholy side (melancholy in the sense of the personality type, not necessarily suggesting that I'm depressed because I'm not). Perhaps it's a side I need to let come to the surface more often... or perhaps it's a side that's already coming to the surface more often than it used to. Naturally I'll tend to laugh things off and not take many things very seriously. I don't think that's always a bad thing. I hope, though, that I'm learning to take the things that deserve to be taken seriously more seriously and think about things more carefully.

Here lies another nifty insight to my soul and the way I'm growing as a person. I wonder if anyone cares? I don't know if I read this about someone else whether I'd actually give a toss at all. Especially if it was about someone I didn't even know. Or would I read it and feel some sort of kinship with them because I've been through similar things? I don't know. Maybe I should get on some other blogs, have a read and see how I feel. To do that I'll have to sign off here. I guess that's as good a reason as any to leave it there.

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Teegs