Lightning

There’s something awe-inspiring about lightning. The sheer brilliance of that split second of bright light followed by the ear-cracking boom is something that will never cease to amaze me. The past two days, we have been experiencing some of the most insane lightning strikes I’ve ever seen in my life. I was walking home from the gym with Matt last night (Wed) and the sky lit up so brightly it was like someone took a picture with a giant camera. Almost instantly, the crack of thunder hit, causing everyone on the street to shout out in alarm. I’m not even kidding, a car’s alarm started going off because the boom was so intense.

This afternoon and all throughout the night (Thursday), it’s been thunderstorming (apparently they’re pretty bad down in TX) and caused our internet to cut out until now (Friday). But yeah, it’s actually been an interesting experience not having internet to distract you from thinking…

Forgive me if this metaphor seems like a stretch, it’s 2 AM right now and I can’t sleep, so I decided to jot down some of my thoughts before I forget. Most of the time, we live our lives in a mostly pleasant fog of our day-to-day life. Sometime days are good, some worse, and others, mediocre. A lot of times, we’re carrying mental baggage and chains that are tying us up from living fully joy-filled lives; but hey, no one can really see them, cuz for the most part, the dark hides it well. That’s true until those “lightning flash” moments illuminate all the ugliness and pain around you. All that crap you’ve been trying to dig away and hide is revealed in all the nastiness, and you can see the hurt on people around you. It’s a really peculiar phenomena to go through.

In many ways, those brief flashes serve to keep me humble, and remind me to stop being so focused on my own life. Everyone, no matter how put together they appear- everyone has their own baggage that is tying them down. What’s funny is that I can still see the mental image of the neighborhood when the lightning struck 2 nights ago. That picture just burned itself into my brain, and I hope it stays imprinted.