Quick Thoughts: Perspective
I was flying recently and the place we took off from was pretty dark and cloudy. It was overcast, no sun was shining through the clouds, I couldn’t see any blue sky from the ground. So, no big deal, but it put a little bit of an added damper on an already low feeling day. I was leaving loved ones and heading to a place where I didn’t really want to go, but another loved one was there so I was going... Not a super fun situation.
So anyway. We take off and we’re flying below the clouds and nothing occurs to me other than the thought that it was naturally getting darker (evening) and we’d probably be flying in clouds for a while. But then (and I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me at the time that we would keep climbing, but it didn’t) we passed through the entire layer of clouds, which of course exposed the whole plane to the late afternoon sunlight.
Sunlight is everything to me. On some days. And I never really thought about the fact that even when the sun isn’t literally shining on me, it’s definitely still there shining bright light. The blue sky is definitely still there, even if I can’t see it from the ground. So all I know is, I saw the sun, I felt the sun, on a day during which I was impacted by its absence in my little world...but it was just there all along. It was comforting. And I need to try to remember that for future cloudy days.