Breaking waters and a Milky Way
It was pure fantasy, perhaps there are no words that could explain how I felt at that moment. ‘Magnificent’ might not be enough to describe what I saw. For the 26 years, I have lived, never seen such pretty pattern in the sky. I have stargazed almost all my life but I never been to such dark places to see the sky in full delight. It is the Milky Way that spread across the sky all over my head, the whole end to end like a cat spilled a glass of milk all over. I have never seen such a big thing on a sky before not just with my own eyes.
I think the dramatic mood was set by the roaring waves of Indian Ocean. Just sounds of water hitting on itself on the shore, pitch dark all around, what you could see are only straight above your head, and that is something that you cannot see all day when you live in a town. A pure naked beauty of nature, I saw many things in it, perhaps like a lover who finds a lot of interesting things in the eyes of the partner. The magnificent shape and size of it made me realize things I have always wondered about, that is how small we are in the vastness of the universe, but at the same time it made me wonder that perhaps it could have created us just to see the sheer beauty of itself, like a pretty dress a girl wear so her man could see how beautiful she is… or something like that. After all, she is a pure beauty and I am her man admiring all the time, now like one of the dress, this time, milky way, next time something else. That is one of the beauties of her, you can admire anything and everything.
At the moment when I feel all those things, I thought I should write this down because it is something new for me.
I never been on a road trip before or get together with friends’ offsite. Special because I have never been to the beach at that hour. So all the feeling was something new, new as you learn to speak the first word out of your mind or learning to understand the meaning of a new word. It was quite new. The whole experience was something that cannot be just good!
I should do more endeavors like this more often and write about how I feel about all of them.
— ana —
2015-08-06