#Monomad Challenge - connection

Good evening, #Monomad friends

Here is my entry for the #monomad contest by @brumest and @monochromes.

Connection with the outside world.

There are moments when we feel truly connected to the outside world. They don’t happen as often as we’d like, but there are some moments—albeit a little less frequent than we’d like—when we are completely immersed in the world.

We feel not just a connection, but an almost mystical bond.

These moments happen more often when we don’t let the noise around us—and within us—clutter our thoughts or undermine our concentration.

On one of the many occasions when I went for a walk in a park, it was still early, and on that particular day, there weren’t many people on the street. Not because the weather was particularly unpleasant—nothing of the sort. The clouds danced high above our heads, yet without the slightest disregard for those walking below.

Circles and arcs were the shapes I imagined most often, because I—like so many others—had no plan for the next few minutes. Wandering outdoors, walking with a general direction but without a rigid path, makes us more open to changes, to small adjustments to the plan. It keeps us from being so set in our ways and inflexible when, for some reason, we have to adapt to what we might have at the moment, what we might visit, or what we might not yet see.

This morning, the garden was all mine. I didn’t see a single soul from the moment I passed through the entrance gates until I passed through them again on my way out.

A true peace of mind and spirit.