In The Waiting

This is a rare moment where I feel the urge to write and I am taking this opportunity.

As I am sitting at a cafe trying to work on my bible study for tonight I was neighbored by a couple of ladies that distracted me with their conversation. Not that they were loud but rather me attention was being drawn to what they were talking about. Adding on to the slow hip-hop music playing in the background of the cafe, it did not help either. But for some reason, I chose to come to the cafe to work because its the place I feel like I do some of my best work where I won't allow sleepiness to distract my attention to focus on my work.

So I threw on my earphones and decided to drown my ears with some white noises to lessen the audio distraction of what's happening in the cafe. Thus, I stumbled upon a choice on Youtube about celestial white noise, which had a thumbnail of the solar system. Which instantly reminded me about a more subtle noise, as compared to the usual water white noises that I have chosen in the past.

What is interesting is that as I started listening to the piece, I was immediately transported to memories of being in an airplane. That sound when you are in the air and what is simply wind and engine sounds. And oddly enough I gave me a sense of comfort because my last flight experience was rather unpleasant.

So as I dwell deeper to this surprising experience all I can think about is that the airplane experiences brought me to a closer reminder or idea about space as I am thousands of feet closer up into the stratosphere. Then what follows is the reminder of the movie Interstellar. Remembering that it was one of the best movies I have watched, apart from the ending of the movie; which I did not agreed on.

Although due to the vacuum of space, sound is not something that resembles what we often see in movies, but rather its more quieter. But nevertheless, the sounds of being in an airplane brings me there in these connected associations.

End result is that... I found myself being carried into a moment of peace and bliss that to me represents a distance away from the world and higher up to somewhere more peaceful and metaphorically closer to God. 

Ironically as all of these started to helping me not get distracted by my environment so that I can focus on my work, I ended up experiencing this unique peace-like moment that I cannot pass up from writing it down.

Kind of giving me a different perspective of flying now...