sometimes you need to remind yourself that you’re a part of something bigger. you’ll step into the sun feeling like a ghost, but you will return with something new and hopeful stirring in you. maybe you need some time to sit under a shade of a big tree and do nothing else except feel a sense of connection and unexplainable fondness to that tree. maybe you need time to lie beside the stream and watch the way sunlight falls on water, thinking nothing except “how pretty...” feeling close to the earth and sky will remind you of how little your worries are. the trees and stars understand your solitude, and creatures and birds accept you as part of their landscape without asking anything of you. when you’re alone, nature reminds you that even if you are invisible and fleeting, your existence is a miracle and you’re part of the earth. you exist at the same time as the little black cat you saw in your garden and that alone connects you to them. you belong here, just as much as the sparrows and flowers do. you’re alive and you belong. everything else is so small and temporary.