the sunrise is spectacular

[Kodo]

This morning my girlfriend woke me up early so she could go to class. I had to get up to see her off and lock the door. I went back to bed, but soon after she called me and told me to go outside.

I quickly got up and went to the door. I looked outside and the view was breathtaking. The sun had just risen. There was a perfect gap in the clouds for it. It was so beautiful. Words and pictures can never describe what I saw and felt. The sun was a creamy, glowing red with soft orange streaks spreading in all directions.

It was just there in the sky filling me with hope. All I needed was a single, quick glimpse to feel its power. I tried to go back to sleep, but I could not after seeing this. I wanted to live today, not sleep through it.

At first glance my first thought was that the sunrise (and sunset) are all you need to live for. Even if you have nothing else to be thankful for, the sun will always rise. It can be seen anywhere in the world. And it is always spectacular, even when your thoughts are too loud to see it.

Have a beautiful day :)

[Pablo Escobar Jr.]

You are a wierdo.

Anyways, a couple of days ago I sat in the train at about 6 or 7 in the afternoon, the sun was already setting and it looked really cool. The sky was dark blue, purple even, with greenish clouds around the sun, which was dark orange itself, the sky around the sun was kind of pink. Looks so cool.

[.:Mouldy Punk:.]

Meh, sometimes it's nice too look at. I would hardly say that it's all you need to live for though :\

The weather in the morning/evening is usually too crap here to see the sunrise/set. I remember being at a house party a couple of years ago, and we were all still up when the sun was rising. We went out to a park near the house to watch it. Turned out it was too foggy and drizzly to see anything. It just gradually got lighter. Didn't see any nice colours, could hardly even see the sun - you could look directly at it and not hurt your eyes because of the general crappiness of the weather.

[guilty.by.association]

We get some amazing sun rises/sets here I love to watch them :) the air in the morning is amazing

[Staffybull97]

That sounds really amazing man:) Those kind of things are so cool. We don't get anything like that here right now due to the season:(

[JRussell89]

There are moments that we all regain our spiritual center. I am envious that I couldn't be there to see that moment of natural beauty. There was a point in my life where I was ready to give up entirely. Then, I spent a long period of time talking to some people that had survived much harder times than me. These people were mostly veterans of war that provide me the necessary perspective that I really needed. Now, that I have had to expeience war and all that goes along with that I am always ready to accept these things that enrich a persons life.

[Kodo]

I heard a story somewhere about a homeless man who lived under a pier. He had no things and no one, but he was happy. Most of the days the weather was rainy or bad, but some times he would go on the edge of the pier and sit there to watch the sunrise even in the rain. Somebody went with him to watch one of these, and they asked him, why do you still get up each day? And the homeless man says, "Are you kidding? Look at the view!" As long as the sun would rise, that means God is still there, so there's no reason to give up.

JRussell, that was a very interesting comment. I've never been through war. I'm really intrigued as to what the veterans said to you. What kind of advice did they give to hang onto hope for life?

[Legham]

Yeah, i get awesome sunrises off my balcony as well. There was about a week some amount of months ago where i woke up early every morning to catch the sunrise.

[FG]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0EykJy9nWQ

enjoy.

[rcguy150]

Sometimes here in California when we either have smog days or if theres a wildfire going on, the smog or smoke enhance the sunset by the particulate matter scattering the sun's light and illuminates the whole sky into an orange glow, and the sun itself is a red ball. its amazing.

[JRussell89]

Well, I wasn't sure anyone wanted to hear this but here it goes. I'll try my best to recount what this one gentleman said to me. When I was stationed in the states my unit did some volunteer work and planned a special Veteran's Day party for the local VFW post. It was sponsored by my battalion which helped us get the funds necessary to reserve the hall and get the food etc. All in all it was a really nice party and one of the really rewarding moments of my life. Just to see the smiles that we had brought to these brave men and women is something I will never forget. Anyways, at this point in my life I had broken off my engagement to get married and was drinking pretty heavily. I was depressed and sad all the time. Anytime someone struck up a conversation with me it ended up with me being a negative miserable fuck to whoever I was talking to. Then, my grandmother had died a horrible death after a brief bout with brain cancer. I was truly lost. So here I am at this party and one old gentleman sees me sitting by myself and he sits down and introduces himself. For the purpose of this story I'll call him Rick. Rick and I shake hands and he thanks me for helping set things up for the party. I said some quick reply that I don't remember entirely. It was like, "Thanks but I had nothing to with it, I'm pretty much useless". I saw this bothered him and I apologized, but he said he wanted to know what was bringing me down so much. I told him about all the things that were going on in my life and started to cry a little. Rick then grabbed my hand and said,"Life is a tough road for all of us. Some parts of the road are always tougher and lonelier. Sometimes you even have to travel alone. However you do come to good parts that make the journey worthwhile." Rick then proceeded to tell me a story of his about WWII. His unit was advancing on German forces in Northern Italy and they had to slow down so their supplies could catch up. They had set up a temporary base camp and were ordered to stand fast until the next morning when the support elements could catch up and re-supply them. that night his unit had been attacked by German forces and some remaining unit of the Italian Army. They were surrounded and cut-off. Throughout the night the received heavy fire and mortar attacks. Rick said about 15 of his friends and battle buddies got killed that night. Things were not getting better as the night went on. They were running low on all supplies and things looked lost. At some point, Rick had started to whistle some song he remembered his dad whistling and it helped him gain focus and relax him during the battle. Rick couldn't recall how long he had been whistling. He had been shot twice, both wounds not severe. Well, morning was coming and Rick could see the sun trying to poke out from behind some clouds on the horizon. The attack had seemed to cease and he sat down and started whistling again. He overheard that another American unit had overrun the opposing forces. Rick just sat there and kept whistling and crying until help arrived. All the while he sat and watched what he called the most beautiful sunrise he had ever seen. For his actions that night Rick was awarded The Silver Star. He said he was scared as hell, and pretty sure he wasn't going to make it. When he was whistling he thought about home and family and all the great things that happened in his life. Rick said that was what drove him on. He wasn't going to let someone else end his life and prevent him from being happy again. Rick had lived to be 91years old. He had many kids, grandkids, great grandkids and lived a whole and productive life. At the time I met him he was 85 years old. Rick finally told me that he could have given up but he promised himself he would hang on to see at least one more sunrise.
I know that was kind of long, sorry. I can't remember everything he told me. I do remember how he told me to enjoy the small things we take for granted. These things can change your perspective and your life if you let them. The small moments, the small things help you appreciate what you have so much more. From that day on my life has been so much more fulfilling from that point of view.:peace:

[Kodo]

thanks for that post it was great.