Type of Moment
Apr. 22nd, 2022 06:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
takethisforexampleLord forgive me if I can't properly explain this.
There is a particular type of moment I just came to thinking about. I guess the best way to describe it would be a long moment, somewhere in between watching paint dry and being in the middle of Times Square. A kind of random, honed in moment...
For instance, watching a balloon float into the sky until you can't see it anymore. I can picture the intricate twists of balloons as they fly upwards, their strings loosely tailing behind them with perfect spiraled curls at the end. It's something to stare at even when everyone has moved on from it. There is something about that. Watching something until you can't anymore, until it is truly truly gone. A prolonged period of observation where you truly grasp every detail. I wish I could explain it more technically than this.
Other examples include:
- Watching a bird until it flies away
- Watching an area of cloud warp until it is unrecognizable
- Staring at aircraft or satellites until they are out of view
There is something similar about these things but it is unexplainable. Something about feeling entirely and amazingly present until it is over.
There is a particular type of moment I just came to thinking about. I guess the best way to describe it would be a long moment, somewhere in between watching paint dry and being in the middle of Times Square. A kind of random, honed in moment...
For instance, watching a balloon float into the sky until you can't see it anymore. I can picture the intricate twists of balloons as they fly upwards, their strings loosely tailing behind them with perfect spiraled curls at the end. It's something to stare at even when everyone has moved on from it. There is something about that. Watching something until you can't anymore, until it is truly truly gone. A prolonged period of observation where you truly grasp every detail. I wish I could explain it more technically than this.
Other examples include:
- Watching a bird until it flies away
- Watching an area of cloud warp until it is unrecognizable
- Staring at aircraft or satellites until they are out of view
There is something similar about these things but it is unexplainable. Something about feeling entirely and amazingly present until it is over.
