Lovely morning. Before my alarm went off I was woken from my sleep by the sound of loud thunder and heavy rain. The weather is so different these days, it seems to have changed so much since I was a little girl. I remember the rainy season, when it would rain for days on end and the hydrangeas would shine their beautiful colours in the rain. The change of climate may be partly due to global warming. When I went to see a glacier in the Canadian Rockies, at the base of the glacier, there was a picture of the glacier about 20 years ago and a picture of the same place today.
The landscape is different now, with brown earth bare in parts of what was once a beautiful, glistening glacier. Nevertheless, as we rode in a large snowmobile to the Columbia Icefield, I was amazed and thrilled by the magnitude of nature. When I saw the glaciers in front of me, the ice fields in front of me that I had seen on TV and in pictures, I felt that I didn’t understand anything yet and I wondered how many places, things and people I would be able to see with my own eyes in this lifetime. I felt sad that I could not see everything I wanted to see with my own eyes, even though I was looking at something beautiful.
At the same time, complex feelings welled up in my heart as I realized that there is a lot of possibilities to encounter many things in this life.
My heart was filled with the feeling that everything I saw, the people I talked to, the books I read, the things I had to do, could only be encountered in this moment, and that I should enjoy every moment with all my heart.
Our lives are finite, but they are not limited. I believe that there are many possibilities and I want to enjoy every moment of it.
So I sat on my bed thinking about this and before I knew it, the thunder and rain had passed. Then, as usual, I opened my favourite English articles on the internet, read them aloud and when I found an expression I liked, I put it in my notebook like a treasure.And this is how I wrote my thoughts in the morning and made breakfast for my family… This is my moment of yesterday morning.