Tuesday, April 22, 2008
What if the whole world was like the ski slopes?
Everything is so beautiful, yet in the world there's this social agreement not to mention it.. or are people not aware of it?
On the slopes, yelling between total strangers, "what a
beautiful day" And the person yells back, "It's good to be alive!"
It's completely within social etiquette to be happy, in awe, grateful, blissed, excited, encouraging, kind, to converse back and forth with the person near you in the moment on the goodness of the moment, where we are, how freaking much fun we are having.
I'm like that all the time. On the slopes I can be me and it fits in.
Now back at the grocery store, I'm still blissing out, ecstatic, excited, joyous, in awe, grateful, I am always like that. Yet at the grocery store, it doesn't feel appropriate to say to the nearest person, "Isn't life amazing, this is so good!"
I smile all the time, when I'm trying to camouflage it's my one big tell. Years ago, when this first started, while at a grocery store, in the frozen food section walking down the isle, I glance up directly at the person coming towards me, this HUGE grin on my face. Eye contact, her face with both a startled look and a smile.
I didn't mean to startle her.
My eyes filled with love, joy, excitement, my face a huge grin. It looked to me like she had taken the look in my eyes, the grin on my face personally and her mind was scrambling to put together what the connection was with her.. did she know me? That kind of thing.
*sigh*
For years I kept my glance down while shopping. :)
Now when on the mountain skiing I can look at the boarder next me, same look, same grin... well OK, I have a helmet and goggles on, that probably tones it down some, yet I have the best time existing in paradise and having others join me there.
On the slopes, yelling between total strangers, "what a
beautiful day" And the person yells back, "It's good to be alive!"
It's completely within social etiquette to be happy, in awe, grateful, blissed, excited, encouraging, kind, to converse back and forth with the person near you in the moment on the goodness of the moment, where we are, how freaking much fun we are having.
I'm like that all the time. On the slopes I can be me and it fits in.
Now back at the grocery store, I'm still blissing out, ecstatic, excited, joyous, in awe, grateful, I am always like that. Yet at the grocery store, it doesn't feel appropriate to say to the nearest person, "Isn't life amazing, this is so good!"
I smile all the time, when I'm trying to camouflage it's my one big tell. Years ago, when this first started, while at a grocery store, in the frozen food section walking down the isle, I glance up directly at the person coming towards me, this HUGE grin on my face. Eye contact, her face with both a startled look and a smile.
I didn't mean to startle her.
My eyes filled with love, joy, excitement, my face a huge grin. It looked to me like she had taken the look in my eyes, the grin on my face personally and her mind was scrambling to put together what the connection was with her.. did she know me? That kind of thing.
*sigh*
For years I kept my glance down while shopping. :)
Now when on the mountain skiing I can look at the boarder next me, same look, same grin... well OK, I have a helmet and goggles on, that probably tones it down some, yet I have the best time existing in paradise and having others join me there.
