..... the 'pop-ins' .....

Last night, someone mentioned something about life being something like a rotation. And I couldn't agree more.

Almost everything starts to be some kind of ritual.

Wake up, brush your teeth, take a bath....go to work/school/wherever it is you spend your days.....get back after having done the same things at work or quite similar....... relax(pretty much the same way you usually do) or do some work you carried home from work...got to bed and next morning.........................it all starts again.

The things that make our days different only seem to 'pop in' once in a while, almost like a visit; maybe once a week or thrice a month, I don't know. The days all just seem to be identical in a way. And it does get a bit... you know what.... sometimes.

Interestingly though, even as ritualistic as life seems to be, time just seems to be rolling uncontrollably. the days keep going by...minutes, hours, days, months just seem to come and go. And out of these 'bits and pieces' of time years are formed.

But; if the things that make our days different say a trip to Mombasa, Christmas with prisoners, a go at bungee jumping, an experience with a stranger; happened in a systematic/ordered/routine/structured way like some of the other things in our lives then wouldn't it all come back to the same thing?

Life ideally should be something we celebrate everyday but honestly some days are difficult to be EXCITED about.

Thank God for those 'pop in' moments that don't come everyday;

the memorable moments (that at times are but for a short while) with the people we love, the journeys that take us to places we only dreamed of, the strangers we meet that give us a whole new perspective, the smile from uniquely different people, the sunrise and sunset(i just never get enough of these)......

When these 'pop in' moments stop by; grab them with all you've got coz they just might never pay you a visit again (at least not the same way), all you can do is store them somewhere in your heart that they will inspire and give you strength as the minutes rush into years....

 Here is to all those experiences we hold dear and close to our hearts.....

:)