A Visualization: The Snow

I'm thinking today about the snow.

Before the snow came, the world was gray and dim. The trees are bare, the grass is sleeping, the flowers are gone, the sun is hidden. Colorless, muddy. Dirty and discarded.

Then the snow came. The view was hidden by the swirling dance of the flakes in the wind. The world was alive with action, change was making it's presence obvious yet again. It's always there, change is. Everything is always shifting, though it can seem imperceptible at times. But not at that moment, the shifting of the world outside was clear and present.

When the snow had finished, once the dance had completed, the world was different. The fresh layer of snow made everything seem new. The world looks clean and born anew. Everything has been transformed into something more beautiful.

I hope one day, as I become more enlightened and become more and more the person I want to be, that I may have a small effect like that on the people around me. I know people like this. People who brighten people's lives just with their presence. That lighten up a room when they walk into it. That project so much energy that it infects the souls of those around them. (I'm looking at you, Melissa. You too, Mindy!)

I am so very, very far from being that person right now, and I know that I will never have it to the degree that those who inspire me do. But if I can capture just the tiniest bit of that, I will have succeeded. It's one of the many processes I'm undertaking right now, another journey I have set myself off on.

It will be a long and difficult road, but I will persevere. I will be like the snow.