Open Your Eyes

How dull and deaf and dumb we are! How blind! How forgetful! Fresh air greets me in the morning, filling me with life. Fresh cool water cleans my face and quenches a parched mouth. "Ahhh." New sunlight warms the earth and guides my day's path. Quiet wind delivers packages of scents and provides a path along which the mockingbird's song rides. My legs pump vigorously and blood rushes to them in pulses of life. We feel the ground beneath our feet. Pain. Exhaustion. Adrenaline. Peace. Loneliness. Gratitude. Grace. Love.
And yet the world stamps these out. Against these things there is no law, except for perhaps the law of economy. Time to go, time to come, time for class, time for bed. Hang your head. Talk on the phone. Get your job. Be prosperous and enjoy life!
Open your eyes! Life is not the humdrum of economy, but rather the glorious opus of nature which patiently awaits our gaze.