Last week,
It was my birthday.
My 26th.
I was lucky to experience one of those moments that you know you will remember forever.
It was joyful!
Full of life!
Overflowing with love!
So exuberant that when I think back now my heart wants to warm it's tired hands around it.
Truly a most magical birthday gift from the universe.
It's nice to be reminded from time to time that despite what they say, there is only one reason that we are here.
For life, love and joy.
And,
That when it all boils down,
Why do we need all the mess,
the fuss,
the stuff that they tell us we need to be happy.
When you can have moments like that for free?
It did not cost a cent.
(but for the drycleaning bill for two pieces of cake and a glass of wine smushed into the carpet.)
I could go on in great length about the moment itself.
Where I was.
What I was doing.
Who was there.
The time of day.
And I want to tell you.
But through repetition - I fear that it might lose it's magical quality that so has me entranced.
As if lookimg directly at it will make it disappear.
In any case,
The details are effervescent,
what stays is the why.
Why was this simple, uncomplicated moment so special?
Just because.
Because it was a reminder of the beauty that is inherent in all that is fleeting.
Accepting transience.
As the way of it all.
The push.
And the pull.
The rhythm of life that is threaded right through the centre of my core.
And besides,
It was my moment.
You would have had to be sitting entirely inside my body,
on those handle bars,
a top a cushion,
in late February with the balmy evening washing over you,
your head resting back on the chest of the man that you love,
to have felt what I felt.
The duality of resounding inner peace
and his friend Joy that wants to laugh, cry and scream to share this wonderful feeling!
The absolute happiness that in it's resonance forgets about the past and has no time for worrying about the future.
So much so that there is no contemplation that anything exists outside of that little blip in time.
You are there.
That's it.
And you know you are alive.
