A lil bit of ramble
It's sunny again, but not very hot. This morning, as I woke up, there was this really thick fog, so thick, you couldn't see at 2 meters in front of you. The train I take mornings goes near this artificial lake. Today the fog was covering the entire lake, and could see only the concrete edge along which the train ran. Beyond this edge the world was like disappeared, devoured by the cotton like layers of fog. For a second I pictured how would be if beyond that edge, instead of the water and the hills, well, what if there was nothing. Complete nothing. Nothing at all. The edge of the world. And then I saw birds. How can birds fly through such a fog?
As the train got in Dresden, the sight changed. The fog was thinner, but still laying over the Elbe and the trees and the river's banks. I lifted my gaze to the skies, and in the white cloth-like fog I could see this perfectly round, like made of silvery-gold Sun. And it gave the surroundings this silvery tint. Everything glittered silvery-white - the water of the river, the trees, the bridges, the buildings at the horizon.
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One gets to meet all sort of people, from all walks of life, during their existence. The same goes for situations. You realize that we live in our own corner of world, and as much as we think about how extensive our openness or our ideas about this world, there's always something to prove you wrong. When I was very young I was thinking that everyone has the desire to know as much as possible about everything (in order to improve itself, for various reasons). Then later I saw it that actually most people would rather live in their own little world and not venture out or too far from there. But then I've met people who seem to rather live with their heads hidden in a bag or something. I've seen people living in this country, Germany, for several years now and didn't know what's a Schnitzel. Or that Easter is not a holiday celebrated by the whole world, like the arrival of the New Year. Or what words like "tradition" (which is the same in German, cause is rather an international word) or "exam". Or this person that have lived here for already 8 years and didn't know what PKW (the word used here, but absolutely everywhere here, for "car" or "automobile") means and never heard of... Elvis (Presley).
Yeah, naive me, wondering about such stuff :P
As the train got in Dresden, the sight changed. The fog was thinner, but still laying over the Elbe and the trees and the river's banks. I lifted my gaze to the skies, and in the white cloth-like fog I could see this perfectly round, like made of silvery-gold Sun. And it gave the surroundings this silvery tint. Everything glittered silvery-white - the water of the river, the trees, the bridges, the buildings at the horizon.
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One gets to meet all sort of people, from all walks of life, during their existence. The same goes for situations. You realize that we live in our own corner of world, and as much as we think about how extensive our openness or our ideas about this world, there's always something to prove you wrong. When I was very young I was thinking that everyone has the desire to know as much as possible about everything (in order to improve itself, for various reasons). Then later I saw it that actually most people would rather live in their own little world and not venture out or too far from there. But then I've met people who seem to rather live with their heads hidden in a bag or something. I've seen people living in this country, Germany, for several years now and didn't know what's a Schnitzel. Or that Easter is not a holiday celebrated by the whole world, like the arrival of the New Year. Or what words like "tradition" (which is the same in German, cause is rather an international word) or "exam". Or this person that have lived here for already 8 years and didn't know what PKW (the word used here, but absolutely everywhere here, for "car" or "automobile") means and never heard of... Elvis (Presley).
Yeah, naive me, wondering about such stuff :P