Opening eyes

When you have lived in a some kind of darkness for a long time, it is always very startling to again notice what's happening around you. When a long time you have been captive inside your own head, your eyes can be like eyes of a newborn when they see a beautiful tree covered with white snow - you stop walking, don't care anymore of the thing you were doing, and just stare. How can there be so beautiful things here, have they always been here, why haven't I noticed? Why have a walked past them without seeing them? What else have a miss out?

It it healthy to once in a while see the world around you with pure, newborn eyes. At the same time you maybe can see yourself with new eyes and the life you have been living. Maybe you can better understand the things that have happened, the things you have done, and the things you didn't see.

At the first time in many months I saw something beautiful.