It’s days like this where I’m fortunate enough to sit in a
Starbucks on a warm afternoon and just watch life around me. I think that
sometimes we take for granted some of life’s simplest joys. Give me a cup of
coffee, a good Pandora station, and a little time to myself and I’m set.
We live life in this constant state of motion and rarely do
we take time to ourselves to kick back, relax, and just let life play out.
Because we’re so caught up in this world, we fail to see the beauty in the
world happening around us.
Whether it be watching a teenage couple in the corner of
Starbucks laughing and enjoying a cup of coffee, or taking notice of two white
girls in high waisted jean shorts waiting for their Java Chip Frappucinos, or
sitting beside some lady staring intently more at her phone than her laptop, or
watching a married couple probably in their 30s deciding what to order, or
watching a mother spill a couple of coffee while her daughter sits at the 2
person table delighting in her chocolate cake pop, or the Starbucks workers frantically
going around the store trying to prepare customer drinks, life is at constant
motion and I’m here watching it in slow motion and taking it all in.
You’d be surprised how amazing it is to see how people carry
out their daily lives and how our paths intertwine without us even acknowledging
it. I don’t know who any of these people are and I don’t think they really care
for a 19 year old Asian college student sipping on a Venti Vanilla Macchiato
who’s actually writing about their life. However without these people who
happened to stumble into this Starbucks on this Wednesday afternoon in June,
this blog post wouldn’t even be happening and I couldn’t be more thankful than
having the opportunity to watch them live their life.
So what point am I trying to prove?
Honestly I don’t know. Sometimes I write just to write and sometimes
I write with a purpose in mind. I couldn’t tell you all of the points I’m
trying to prove but rather advising you to go sit somewhere with a lot of
people and just people watch. Go to Starbucks, go to a park, go to the library,
just get out and just go. You gain a deeper appreciation for life because you’ll
realize that eventually we need to slow down and stop. If you never stop and
take a second to look at what’s going on around you, you’ll never be able to
live in the present because you’ll always be at a constant worry for the
future.
Maybe you won’t see the same things I’m seeing right now but
I’m hoping you’ll see that life shouldn’t always be busy because days pass and
years pass in the blink of an eye. The people you see and know now turn into
memories and in time things fade away.
Savor every moment because every moment you’re living and
every moment you’re breathing is of the utmost importance. Sure our lives are chaotic
and are full of misconstrued moments where we’ll never know the full intent or
significance of it, but at the same time it’s a masterpiece of time where our
moment becomes the combination of all the people’s moments around us. What you
take from the moment is up to you and whether you decide to stop and live in it
or let it pass is completely up to you.
The lady next to me who is now on her 3rd cup of
coffee since me being here may not care about this little fragment of time, but
to me it is everything because life couldn’t be greater than it is now.
Our life is full of a million moments. Some we take with us,
some we try to forget about, some we can’t even remember, and some we wait
wondering what will happen next. Whether it be 30 seconds, an hour, or a day of
nothing but bliss, these are the moments that change us and are the ones we
hold onto forever. In the end, it’s about finding those moments that take our
breath away and remind us how beautiful and perfect life is.
