Moments to sit back

Passionate, hasty, living life to the fullest so that when the years pass, when I look back, I will not have any regrets. I look back and smile at the values ​​and experiences that I have woven. That is what Xuan Dieu once said: "It is better to be brilliant for a minute and then suddenly disappear/ Than to be sad and flickering for a hundred years". I have shaped for myself that modern way of life and then thought deeply, it itself also sowed in me thoughts about sitting down and settling down, even if it is only for a few moments...

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I have gone through the years with my own being and those around me. On that journey, I opened my heart, then received, then gave, then tolerated and forgave. And it was after the stops that I sat down and quietly contemplated, then like a magical way I touched my heart very gently but that very thing awakened in me many thoughts and emotions.

Where did I stop on that journey? I leaned against countless trees in my life. When I was tired, I went to them, leaned my thin shoulders on them, and just talked and confided. The green color of countless branches and leaves shed drops of pure dew on me. I stretched my legs and tilted my head back to look at the sky behind the leaves, listening to the peaceful chirping of birds. I admired the trees, and then compared myself to a tree to look at them and live.

Just cling to the roots in the mother earth and just keep growing, green, calm and using the way of spreading shade as a value to dedicate to the beautiful life. I also sat at a bus stop on the side of the road in the middle of this city and watched the street scene. I saw the bustling crowd, saw the street vendors with their long cries filling the alleys. I saw the peaceful leaves falling amidst the dust of the streets. And I, I sat in places where I could sit, that is a hill, a bank of rustling reeds in the winter afternoon, a field, a carpet of grass...

At that time, I heard the sound of silence, the sound of rain, the sound of time that has passed through this life for many years now condensed into sediment. And yet, the path we take will be wider, more meaningful, and also easier to understand?

The moments I sit down, I live deeply in silence. That silence is not an internal force that erodes dynamism, but it is a catalyst that nourishes calmness in me. It will develop my own abilities, I understand more about myself, about the world called infinite and mysterious, where for a long time there were times when I was like an actor who had to play the role of many other subjects. My feet were tired, I took off my shoes and looked at them attentively. I love my shoes, they are the friends that have accompanied me on every trip. They must be very happy when they have gone through the lands with me.

The minutes I sat there, I was lost in a maze of emotions. I was happy to meet, to be attached, to have beautiful memories brought into my memory. I was a little sad because of the speed of time. I was more heartbroken because of the pain and loss that I witnessed. I regretted the unfinished intentions, not really fully realized in that place. I was disappointed because of the true desires that had not been fulfilled. The many levels of life that passed through were the many colors of emotions. And then my heart was like a multi-colored painting, it made me always sensitive to this life.

Sit back and slow down with time, with myself. After that slow down, I love myself more, and truly loving myself is the secret to happiness. I know how to nurture and cultivate myself to become more and more perfect because of that. It is like the low part of a song, the empty part of a poem, a beautiful silent flash of light.

This beautiful life still unfolds day by day, whether I want it or not, I cannot separate myself from the opposing sides in a whole. The rhythm of life itself is the same, it must have moments to sit back, to be quiet, to be peaceful, to enjoy, to be self-aware, to love this life more, and of course from there to live more passionately...

Source: https://baodanang.vn/channel/5433/202504/nhung-phut-giay-ngoi-lai-4003521/