Thursday, July 9, 2009

It may just be the dark


Why do thoughts come to us differently after sunset? What us it with the sun setting and the stars appearing that make us humans relaxed, pondering and amazed at all thought suddenly flowing through our mind? I love those hours of utter silence and lonelyness. When it seems you are the only being awake. But it can easily be a time of negativity and sadness. Of longing and when regret, shame, guilt and what if's come to haunt us. There is pure magic in the night. Listen to Debussy's Claire de Lune, next time you feel ambivalent about your lonely nighttime thoughts. The melody perfectly describes the feeling of sitting up after dark. Its neither cheerful nor dark, it's simply the spirit of night.

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