5 Sensory Reasons to Wake Up Every Morning
Simple seasonal enjoyments that reinforce humanly purpose
We live fast paced lives. Clock hands spin hastily around. The sun sprints from east to west. Long term investments are carried out with the purpose of fulfilling an ultimate goal. We partake in commitments for the outcome but rarely for the enjoyment of it itself. We have a tendency to focus primarily on our wider lives, and so the appreciation for nature’s simple blessings becomes a rarity. Especially when daily undertakings like working, studying and making ends meet become the oxygen to our busy lives. Moments granted to stop and smell the roses are finite.
I finished my A Levels around sixth months ago and an expansive cloud of emptiness in which my thoughts are running wild has begun to drift over my conscience. The slight crisis regarding my life’s next chapter is writing most of my mind’s inner soliloquies. Yet, it is an easy habit to focus our major responsibilities and ignore life’s minor marvels. So, I compiled a list of five modest but material appreciations that can respectively but equally encourage the sunrise of each of our days.
Waves brushing over your feet
The anticipation brought by the uncertainty of each wave’s personality, gives focus to the sensation of the water engulfing. The smooth, sometimes gentle, sometimes forceful, motion that embraces and covers your feet offers a sense of protection. A calming, sensory massage that suggests safety and security.
The sound of heavy rainfall
London rain has been glistening the pavements recently. Although, the shivers and grey sky need not define heavy rainfall when the sound of the gentle, successive taps temporarily decelerates our overstimulated minds. As the delicate serenity halts all further thoughts other than that of which the rain sounds.
The smell of warm bread
The smell of freshly baked bread has no seasonal limitations. A palatable joy of which morning of all temperatures prepares. The homely scent whose presence could sufficiently fulfil gastronomic desires. A historically accessible delight, maintaining it’s luxury in today’s modern world.
Rich ice cream on a summer’s afternoon
The slashed daylight hours and low temperatures have a devilish tendency to fester and spread low moods. Summer enjoyments are neglected and taken for granted. Although, after the months of agony until warm weather returns, the harshness of winter will have departed.
The flavour of the sugary coolness is savoured by the tongue and used by the body to expel excess body heat. Ice cream: a colourful symbol of a sun reluctant to fall asleep. A summery, culinary luxury relished during the elongated day light hours.
Other passengers on a busy train
A busy tube often spurs a tranquil mind. We can each possess a quiet thought in a busy moment; a thought we can quietly and inwardly own; a thought we need not share with anyone. The anonymity and privacy in which only we know what we are thinking establishes a satisfying contrast between the numbers of people around us.
My quiet thought is often the contemplation of the destination of each passenger. Why they are on the same train as me at the same time as me. Each person lives their own individual life with their own individual worries, yet, in this moment, my own concerns are set aside as I observe and ponder what those of others are.
A busy train allows a minute of peacefulness. As the time spent in transition is the time which stands still. It is our time at our own pace to do with as we please.
