Before I started my morning routine, I had a chance to listen to the local weather forecast. It is cold today and there is even a slight chance of snow flurries.
For some reason, my pea brain got stuck thinking about snow. In the area I live, it typically snows during the winter season. Last year there wasn’t a significant snowfall and it sucked. I like snow. I don’t need 6 feet of it, but I think snow is beautiful and I find it calming for some reason. There is a skylight in my bedroom, which I never really liked. It does let in natural light, but it also lets in heat, cold and noise. When there is a decent snowfall and the skylight is blanked in snow, it muffles the outside noises. I feel like I am safe and cocooned from the outside. It never lasts long, but I love it and look forward to it each winter.
As I was showering, my mind wandered to the thought of snow and how beautiful it really is. Each snowflake is unique and falls to the ground, joining millions of other snowflakes to create a brilliant blanket of snow. In the first hours of a snowfall, the snow is clean, bright, and beautiful. Depending on what the snow fall covers, flaws and imperfections are hidden. Or the snowfall could amplify the blemishes in the landscape around us, especially as it melts and gets dirty.
And this resonated with me, as a person. Each day, I have the option of being like the snowfall. I can choose to blanket those around me and those I love and care about; to make them feel cocooned in my love and surround them with beauty and light. Or I can choose to let outside entities impact my beauty and light. I can choose to let the negative comments of others melt away my blanket of snow and reveal the blemishes and flaws that may impact those I love and care about.
I want to challenge myself to choose beauty and light each day.
Anyway, that was my random shower thought for today.
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