Showing posts with label Beautiful. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beautiful. Show all posts

Sunday, July 19, 2009

So There's This Girl...



... that makes me feel like this.

Manhattanhenge


Every year, twice a year, the Sunset aligns itself with the east-west grid of Manhattan for the event known as "Manhattanhenge".

Taken from Wikipedia because I can't describe it better;

"At sunset, a traveler along one of the north-south avenues on the West Side looking east can observe the phenomenon indirectly, being struck by the reflected light of the many windows which are aligned with the grid. An observer on the East Side can look west and see the Sun shining down a canyon-like street."

Streets. Light.
Street Lights.

The world's greatest love affair. Even the Sun can't resist Manhattans charm. I'm not sure how the city and Sun are content... satisfied... whatever you'd like to call it... with intertwining their fingers; holding hands, for fifteen minutes twice a year. The remaining 525,530, both behemoths tend to do their own thing. Exist in their own way. Stealing glances as the globe turns.

I don't know; maybe there's a lesson there we should all walk away with. "I'll make you the center of my world if you make me yours." We are all behemoths in our own way, of our own measure. We should recognize ourselves as great; and never need to be appreciated together in order to appreciate both. We should build ourselves up, and then find someone who we can architect a part of heaven with. Someone that, when your seen out walking on a mid-day in July, strangers'll think to themselves "Beautiful."