Dreams of the Day

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR

Very belated wishes to you all. Loads of apologies for the lack of updates this festive season. To those concerned about me, I am currently in Brisbane, Australia for my holidays and having a great time sight-seeing.

Nah, I kid. I’ve been in Brisbane for the past year and the furthest place I went during the past few months were actually for work. The closest thing to ‘sight-seeing’ was Christmas lights on houses and the river view from the balcony of my friend’s house. That said, it has been loads of fun.

My lack of updates though, were not because of these trips to various places considering that I still had plenty of time to update. It was, however, credited to the lack of inspiration and energy. You see, the most common birthplace of my posts happen to be in the place where great minds work, my lab office. Or more specifically, my office table. 

Despite popular opinion, I still came to work during the holidays just like any usual day. But this time, there is a difference. While I was pretty hardworking during the holidays, the refectory beside my lab disagreed. They decided to celebrate the holidays like the rest of my lab mates. Being alone in my office without and source of food, the creative portion of my mind decided to rest too.

Life has been pretty interesting so far. I ushered in the new year with a trip to the mountains. Yes, I climbed it. It wasn’t as labour intensive that I thought it would be, but definitely taxing to my mind. Yes, the mind where creative juices once use to flow despite disagreements from several peers. I slept for a full 3 hours after getting home from climbing that mountain.

We climbed Mount Ngungun. It wasn’t a difficult of a climb but there are pretty scary moments especially if one is acrophobic. I assume that word means a fear of heights, I’m way too lazy to Google the meaning right now.

Some of us rushed to the top with gusto, some took their time (probably due to fatigue) and some were just looking forward to an interesting cave-like structure halfway to the peak and had no interest in the rest of the climb. But at the peak, the view made all the effort worth it. I liked the cave better though.

Our ‘climb’ down was pretty rushed as many of us were hungry and in need to answer nature’s call. I noticed that we missed appreciating several smaller wonders of Mount Ngungun. The flowers.

Every single step in our lives will always have a destination, be it the peak of Mount Ngungun, the cave somewhere in between or even the restroom at the base of it. While it is good to have the drive to reach our aims as fast as possible, it is sometimes nice to take solace in the little steps that we take to our destination. Take time to look around and smell the flowers during a stroll to school, or look around the countryside during a long drive, we might see beauty in this world that we may have missed otherwise.

That said, I slept in the car the whole journey back.

Toodles.