Notice something beautiful, and let it be brief.
Beautiful things don't have to last to be worth seeing. Enjoy them, then let go.
A rainbow is wonderful precisely because it doesn't stay. You glance up after rain, and there it is, arched across the sky. You look at it, look away, look back, and it has already begun to fade. Nobody mourns a rainbow. We just feel lucky to have caught it.
Many beautiful things are like this. The light through the leaves at a certain hour. A bird that lands and then leaves. A perfect moment of quiet that passes as quickly as it came. We can spend their brief life either savoring them or grasping after permanence they were never going to have.
Today, when you notice something beautiful, let it be brief. Look at it fully while it's there. Then, when it fades, don't chase it or wish it back. Be glad you saw it at all. Some of the best things ask only to be witnessed, not kept.
Try this today
- Look fully at something beautiful when you notice it
- Let it fade without trying to hold on
- Be glad you saw it, rather than sad it's gone