It's 3:29 AM and Saturday morning.
I didn't just come home after a late night out.
I am up, writing my blog.
The house is quiet, as it should be.
I'm pretty sure not many will say this, but tonight it's just been too hot to sleep.
The first sticky warm night of Summer.
I went to bed around 10:30 a regular sort of bed time for me but I haven't managed more than 15 minute naps at the time, either someone's snoring waking me up, or my itchy throat, or my busy mind... So I kept on tossing and turning and overheating.
Time to take action!
I went outside to sniff the night, it's cloudy, no stars, no moon. Not cold, but the first mozzy found me in record time, so I went back inside. It's still warm inside, we had the doors and windows open all day, as it's been a muggy sort of day.
One of those days that you keep staring at the dark clouds on the horizon, begging them to come closer and bring relief. No such luck, all we got was blue skies and light cloud, not even enough for a proper drop of rain.
Thunder and lightning was forecast, but as usual, don't go by the weather forecast planning your day as they don't seem to get it right ever...
I actually feel sorry for them, the weather forecast people. They try their best, but never get it right. So the long range forecast always looks the same: A cloud with a few drops underneath and a few sunrays over the top. I could do that!
Today I was looking a the weather page, in the next 2-hourly block there'll be 2.2 mm's of rain. By the time we get halfway that block, the millimeters have moved to the next 2-hourly block, and so on. I don't know who got the rain, but we sure didn't! We could have used some, it's been a while!
A refreshing rain.... Maybe would have resulted in a blissful sleep...
Maybe.
But what's been on my mind all day as well are the poor people that died today - my today.
It started with an email from Holland about a friend and colleague dying of pancreatic cancer... He wasn't even 45 years old yet! Twice his age and a lot less unexpected was the death of Nelson Mandela. The world has lost a great leader. Then just before bedtime I found out 2 men from my partner's hometown here in NZ have died in a crash today, their truck drove off a bank and one of them had been thrown out of the cabin. A sad day for many...
Makes you realise how everything is just so temporary, transitive. What's here today, could be gone tomorrow. We are such tiny creatures on this massive planet and in the scheme of things we don't even count. Unless we're Nelson Mandela and we stand out head and shoulders above the rest. But not me, maybe not you either. We are just nobody's. We'll be forgotton tomorrow. We will forget tomorrow.
Things will look brighter when the morning comes. No point in dreading the future, as we can't change things, better be engulfed by what's coming. Seize the day. Carpe Diem
Note to self: DON'T FORGET TO CTRL-C or you might loose your work, like you did yesterday...
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