People often shoot me a bewildered look when I tell them that I prefer dusk compared to dawn. Many people wax lyrical about the beauty of watching the sun arrive in the horizon. In so many ways, it represents hope, brightness, and starts off the day afresh.
It is understandable why people love dawns, rains, or even the shimmering moonlight. Dawns are associated with morning, and once its day, it remains daylight for another 2 hours. Once it starts raining, it rains for the next two or three hours. Once the moon shows up, it doesn’t hide itself for the next six hours at least.
When it comes to dusk though, people often prefer to stay inside. They don’t sit and watch dusk per se. They find the time of the day to be confusing, as the colors change from one to another. It also represents the departure of day and the arrival of night. Some find it to be the sign that the day is going to end, and thus emanating negative emotions.
So I was always an alien for loving dusk. When I was driving through the dusk couple of days ago, I realized once again how much I love dusk that I took the risk of snapping the dusk repeatedly through its transition period while driving at the same time.
It’s easy to love dawns. But it takes a bit more to love dusk. Each weather, or time of the day, represents a certain emotion, and how we react to each one of them represents our state of emotional maturity.
Because loving dusks is about loving a departure rather than loving an arrival. You won’t have the privilege of watching dusks as long as you would with dawns. It can happen in the blink of an eye, and thus capturing the dusk itself is a challenge. And dusk never stays in the same color for more than five minutes. The sky goes ballistic literally, with a hue of yellowness, followed by a spate of orangeness, before it gives one final spread of red across the sky. All this happens within half an hour.
Probably that is why I love dusks. I have the privilege of loving something that is rare, and literally hard to catch.
But nothing beats the feeling you get when you smile while watching the dusk. Yes, the world is getting dark, but dusk represents everything you want to know about life. Want to define life? Watch the dusk. Learn to live.
Dusk is literally the most beautiful point of the day and yet many refuse to see it just because it represents the arrival of nightfall. Ignorance, a common trait in all our lives.
Just because it will get dark tomorrow does not mean we don’t have the right enjoy the sunshine today. We should learn to live in present, and nothing sends that message across better than dusk.
The trick of life is always the same- what do you see?
There will be tears, there will be pain, there will be agony, but you don’t need medicines and healers to make you alright. All lies in the fact of how you view life. When you see dusk, what do you see? Do you see a forthcoming night, or do you see the most beautiful, colorful sky you have ever seen?
You can only learn to live fully if you choose to see the sky with the latter viewpoint.
If you have learned to connect with nature and the surrounding world, you will hardly feel lonely in your life, for you know that even though there are no humans around you, nature’s always there.
The ultimate emotion of life is when you are capable of feeling happy for others. When you have the excitement to allow others’ happiness to inspire and cheer you up, you will find that attracting happiness in your life is much more easier than you originally thought. Happiness, too, is a choice.
Similarly, to be able to watch dusk and smile about the fact that a dusk here represents a dawn for someone else is the best quality you could attain.
But why worry? The dawn will be back to bless your life tomorrow. You can smile about that fact while watching the moonlight.
