Romantic Thoughts About Sunsets

Romantic Thoughts About Sunsets

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I've always loved sunsets, how the sun changes hues from lightly sparkling yellow to deeply molten red, the light slowly giving way to the darkness all the while, and strange romantic thoughts suddenly striking the mind, seemingly from nowhere. Whenever I really sit down and look at a sunset, I feel a strange contradiction of emotions - a deep sense of wellbeing washing up with the last of the fading beams, yet on the other hand, a sense of missing potential as though life was meant for something more than what I've yet lived.

Whenever I watch the sun slowly descend upon the world, I'm always struck by a strange and timeless notion that the world is still full of possibility. I feel a connection to the grand, elusive scheme intertwining all of humankind, and am struck by something indefinable, that though I cannot define, still compels me to want to do better with my life than what I have done so far. Those of you who know me know that I love to quote my favorite authors. This quote is one of the best from Henry David Thoreau. "When we are unhurried and wise we perceive that only great and worthy things have any absolute and permanent existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality."

Perception is such an odd thing. Many days, I perceive hardly more beyond the duties of each day and the simple pleasures contained within each one. But then, every so often, when I genuinely stop to gaze at a sunset, or walk a moonlit path, suddenly I perceive something more, something grand and compelling that seems to fill up the night. And when that finally happens, when I finally perceive something that's truly great and worthy, I'm compelled to do more with my life than what I've yet done. I can't live simply resigned to common pleasures and routines. It's so strange to me that my mind and heart can be manipulated by such odd, whimsical forces. But I can honestly say that I'm glad for it, glad that every so often, something strikes me that breaks me free from the ominous humdrum of the day to day, giving me a glimpse into the welcomed romantic thoughts that so easily get pushed away from my crowded mind.

I'm positive that I am not the only one who falls victim to this odd romantic phenomenon. This is not a feeling of regret, where being alone causes a person to reminisce about the things they've lost in life that cannot be gotten back, and all the mistakes that led them to that place. This is something different, something hopeful and full of potential. For those who aren't near a place where you can go and see a beautiful sunset, here is one of my favorite romantic poems from the poet Thomas Moore about his love of sunsets:

"How dear to me the hour when daylight dies And sunbeams melt along the silent sea. For then sweet dreams of other days arise And memory breathes her vesper sigh to me And as I watch the line of light that plays Along the smooth wave toward the burning west I long to tread that golden path of rays And think, twould lead to some bright isle of rest."

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