Last night I found myself sitting next to a raging fire in the hours pushing midnight. Earlier in the day I officiated the wedding of a couple of my friends, and it went beautifully. The reception had ended not long before, and a few stragglers, me included, wanted to end the night sitting next to a fire one of us had made. As I stared into the warm glow of the burning wood, drowsiness settled into my muscles and made me feel like the weight of the day was melting off. I stretched and leaned my head back into the camp chair I was sitting in, and as I did, I caught a glimpse of one of the most magnificent night skies I had seen in quite some time.
As I took a moment to let the feeling of awe settle into the spaces between my slowing heartbeats, I couldn’t help but put my life into perspective in that single moment. It’s funny how easy it is to let life take ahold of us. How a lot of our lives are spent on autopilot. How many of us just kind of… exist. In that moment I felt insignificant in the grand scheme of time and life. I don’t mean that in a bad way. I just mean that sometimes, the things we have going on in life may not be as big as we make them out to be. And at that moment in time, I had an instance of acceptance and let all my worries fade away.
After basking in that feeling for no more than a couple minutes, the drowsiness in my body took hold of me. I got up and made my way back into the farmhouse to fall asleep on the lumpy couch I had made my bed. But not before sending a mental wish and thank you out to the universe, and comparing the stars to sparkle I see in the eyes of someone I love very much.