Driving my children to school this morning we saw a brightly coloured rainbow. As we drew closer we could see the end of the rainbow lighting up a house in beautiful rainbow colours. As we continued to get closer the rainbow faded away. I thought to myself that the people in the house would have had no idea that the rainbow was shining on them.
Perhaps from another's perspective the rainbow was now shining on us. We can never see a rainbow shining on ourselves with our eyes.
I thought about rainbows and their connotations of happiness and beauty and a sense of blessing and luck. I thought how chasing rainbows maybe like chasing happiness. Rainbows seem to shine on others and as we chase those rainbows they stay in the distance or fade away.
I thought perhaps rainbows are always shining on us and happiness is always within us. To see the rainbow however we must look within and to feel happiness we must look within.
All we are and can be is inside us. By chasing other's rainbows we are running away from ourselves and in doing so we are running away from the only place we can truly find happiness.
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i only just noticed this- great post!!! another one up there in the "best of FG" lol...
ReplyDeletei also saw a rainbow for the first time in this city the other day...it was great- so close and so vibrant- I remember while in Tasmania I saw so many rainbows a day and since then has been a huge drought in this city with none except just that one recently. i LOVE rainbows!!!!! I guess that makes me a girly after all ^^
Of course you are girly Zhen look at you....... and listen to you... But not girly in a Barbie way.. which is a good thing :)
ReplyDeleteI can't help but feel somewhat offended. lol
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