Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Watching the world go by

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At times it is time to just sit down and watch the world go by.
Just make a cup of tea or coffee, sit down and look out over life as it happens in front of you.

Sometimes, also depending on the location, it amounts to ‘people watching’. Seeing what people are doing, how and where they are moving. How they are dressed; what they are carrying with them… Is it a design purse, or a shopping bag? Are they alone, or with others? And either way, it is always interesting ~ at least to me ~ how they are interacting with other people. Is there a difference on how they approach apparent family or friends, compared to how they interact with people they may not know?
Just watching people may not tell you everything about their lives ~ yet it does give a fairly good impression about what kind of person they are…

Other times it is transportation that peaks my interest.
What cars are moving by, are there any idiosyncrasies in the license plates; like custom plates, or even ‘funny’ number/letter combinations? And have those cars traveled far? Where may they be coming from? And what type of person would get into a certain car ~ or get out of it, as the case may be?

When in nature, watching the world go by may involve birds, or critters. Sometimes just the way the wind is moving the leaves; kicks up some dust, or perhaps taking some time to listen to the way the wind may whisper in your ear.

Wherever we are, whatever is happening in our life ~ just sitting down, extracting ourselves from the hustle and bustle of our lives, and putting our focus outward at something we don’t have anything to do with; don’t have any need to interact with can provide a certain relaxation.
It is like we are watching a play in the theatre. Here we are sitting back comfortably, while in front of us the ‘play of life’ commences.

And doing this works almost every time…

Yet every once in a while we may find ourselves in a situation where things are so quiet, where everybody seems so introverted, that it seems that the world itself is taking a step back. It is like the world is frozen in that point of time that is ‘now’.
And when we are sitting back to watch the world go by, it may turn out to be one of those rare instances when there is nothing happening; nothing to see…
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