Lesson from a Blue Sky

Recently, I’ve started running on a consistent basis. A couple weeks ago when I finished a run, the running app I use prompted me to take a picture and attach it to the workout. I had taken a couple photos before, but I’m not the selfie type, so I would take pictures of random stuff. After a few days they all started to look the same and I was wondering what else I could do.

I looked up at the sky. There were a few wispy clouds on the horizon, but other than that, it was a vast, clear, homogenous blue. I thought how it would be funny to just take a picture of the sky every day and it would always look exactly the same.

I paused for a moment and then had an interesting thought.

The sky looks the same way as it does every day, but it is not the same sky. Even though I’ve gotten used to seeing a blue sky. Even though I feel as if every day is another rotation in an endless loop. Even though I feel as if I saw that same sky yesterday, the day before, and the day before that, I haven’t.

Time is always moving forward. The earth is always traveling through solar system, the solar system through our galaxy and our galaxy through the universe. Every time you see the sky, you are looking at a different part of the universe. You are looking at if from a different part of the universe. You have traveled to a time and place that no human has ever been and will never be again.

Even though I feel like I’ve been where I am in my life before and that I’m stuck in a loop. I’m not. Today is a new day and with it comes new possibilities. Every day is a chance to do things differently. To change. To move forward just as the whole universe does.