The woods

Taking a walk out as I pleasantly enjoy spending my evenings to clear my head and rid off the negative omen that might have attached itself in my being, the air is soaked with smoky wood and a cool breeze of fresh air takes my mind off all the troubles. The country side is always a site and sniff to behold. As I carefully walk down the loose soil supporting my weight on lingering twigs overhead, I spot monkeys jumping from tree to tree…. Obviously mocking me below as they think I am a gimmick to their game oh how I envy them and wish I could get on top of those trees and dance to a song that would never end….. Endless moments of fun and flight-even though only contained on tree tops. Birds chirping in the not so long ago royal skies oh how they fly so effortlessly; gliding and soaring as the winds allow them to with no thought or worry in mind…. Or so it would seem. Taking small strides to my now not so obvious destination as I lose myself to my surrounding paradise, I spot a squirrel with an apricot in hand just beneath my now risen left foot  just as it’s about sink in the loose earth. I am taken aback by the confidence and the curiosity of the mammal as I take two steps back, the mammal simply stares at my movements as if learning my every gesture making me its maestro. Instinctively, I squat slowly just to see eye to eye and hopefully try to decipher its thoughts. The mammal simply assumes my presence and starts to sniff the apricot and seats on its hind legs then starts to munch on the apricot as though it’s the last nutrient Mother Nature has to offer. Oh! How magnificent the mammal appeared as it swallows the nutrient components at hand and crumbs alike. Every movement, action and gesture the mammal depicts is glorious! Appreciating its surrounding and making it seem like it’s living its last moments on earth yet; happy, thankful and obliged to do so.  Then came a dozen other squirrels all loaded with nuts and apricots and my magnificent creature was lost in the parade and just like that, in a split of a second my creature disappeared but not before consciously taking a photographic memory that captured every stride, action and reaction to last me a lifetime if only to replay and live by its lessons. It had crossed my mind to take it home and make it my pet…  Sad that I had not acted on that but how could I? Here I was thinking that I was the maestro but in real sense, I was the novice……