The Sunny Side Up

TGIF!! It was a glorious morning...yes, it ought to be coz it's a Friday, last working day of the week. Usually I will drive to work on Fridays coz it's disasterous getting back from work on KTM commuter train on Friday evenings. Hot saunna and packed like sardines.

I left home early and took a slow drive along the NKVE. Come on...it's a Friday, no serious business and I need to safeguard my mood for it to be beautiful the whole day through. I wanna watch the city wake up and the other office workers auspiciously begin the holy Friday.

As I headed towards the toll plaza, i discovered something special. It's the orange bright round sun! It reminded me of the sunny-side-up egg yolk. The sight and the thought of it made my stomach grumbling. Oh yeah..I haven't had my breakfast yet. Well, I was saving my stomach to have breakfast with my buddies.

Sihouetted against the early morning mist with the backdrop of  concrete jungle, the sun looked bright and calm. While going at a speed of 80km/h, rushing down the slope, I had this sudden urge of capturing this moment of perfect optimism, the sunny-side-up!!

Suddenly I realised that I have to slow down to appreciate the nature, even for capturing this egg-yolk-like sun.  My car was going at a speed beyond the given limit. Look at the sign at my right side of windscreen and you will know what I mean....
It’s an irony of our modern lives that while technology is continually invented that saves us time, we use that time to do more and more of irrelevant things, some are harmful to ourselves and to other people. So our lives are more fast-paced and hectic than ever. And we are blindly awaiting for days to pass by, erroneously thinking that tomorrow things will get even better.

Life moves at such a fast pace that it seems to pass us by before we can really enjoy it. So we missed the clouds, we missed the tree, we missed the birds and we missed the sun. We even forgot how to breathe properly.

We are not making enough time for ourselves to enjoy our mornings. Instead of rushing off to work in a frenzy. We forgot to appreciate the surroundings, the outdoor and the nature. We have not actually focused on whoever we’re talking to or spending time with — instead of always being connected to a Blackberry or iPhone or a laptop, instead of always thinking about work tasks, sms and emails. We are not living in the present moment. Instead, cying over the past bad experiences and brooding over something that may or may not be happening in the future. 

We are carrying too much burdens that are created by our own wrong perceptions and beliefs. Erroneously thinking that it brings us greater happiness in life by possesing and clinging to them. Whatever we do, we ain't focusing on discarding the liabilities yet we let more liabilities come to our life to own us...At the end, we frentically chasing after the material world and that we have completely ignored our beautiful environment and those good people around us. How sad!

Slowing down is not always an easy task, but it's a conscious choice. It leads to a greater appreciation for life and a greater level of happiness. So, when things failed, or when you realise that your life is a mess or not going in a direction you want to, slow down your pace and take a look at this sun. It's sunny side up! How wonderful was this Friday morning. As it has taught me a lesson--the sunny side is always up (to us to choose)!