To Be or Not To Be

A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it well.
~ Louisa May Alcott

...that more or less describes my situation!

~A Wise Man Said~

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~ Aristotle
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
 


I have always loved looking at the night sky full of stars and a solitary moon. Looking at the night sky in Dubai on my last day the idea, very obvious though it is, struck me suddenly that though the sky looks so different in my perch in Lancaster in the UK… it has to be the same moon staring back at me as this one… and it is the same moon that stared back at me in Mangalore when I was there for about a week or so… I couldn’t help thinking about how very different all these versions of the moon looked…. In Mangalore it looked a bright and fiery red at a great distance from me across the sea but across …not up… it felt like if I were to walk or sail a long distance, I might be able to reach it…. In Dubai it looked quite white and far above my head…. I had to tilt my head all the way down to see it…. In Lancaster it always looks like it’s hiding behind the two-storey house opposite me…. not somewhere in the sky above…. In colour it’s closer to the Dubai moon… I guess because it seems so different depending on where I am looking at it from it sort of never struck me so hard before…. That they are all the same moon…. What actually made me think about this is the rather sweet idea that when my mom looks at the moon in Dubai and I look at it from Lancaster, both of us would be looking at the same thing… I found the thought very sweet and comforting when I was feeling a bit sad about leaving home…it made me feel like I wasn’t going to be that far away if there was something we both could see from where we were… it’s quite strange that I should find comfort in this rather foregone fact but it’s funny how I never really thought of it in quite this way before…




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