Snowflakes

Hundreds of feet hitting the floor, swishes of purple and green and white and blue and pink blur by. Eyes are looking down at their hands that hold up their most prized possession, cell phones. A few of these blurs are yelling, trying to hand out fliers or trying to sell tickets. Hands are waving left and right with smiles here and there. Someone trips over an uneven brick and as she tries to cover up her mishap, no one really notices or cares. Men are moving their legs fast left and right in their business pants. There's a runner in the crowd, and even someone walking a bike. Hurry, look at your watch. Oh here's another flyer person, act like you're busy. Oh there's someone you kind of know, look away and act as if you didn't see her because maybe she won't say hi. Oh, there's a friend, avoid him, you're too busy right now.

Freeze.

There are puddles on the ground. The church bells are ringing a melodious song. It's 6pm, time for dinner. Specks of white are falling down all around you. It's snow. If you look closely, you realize that you can see the beautiful crystals that make up what they call the "snowflake." You know, the big ones that you see on cartoons while growing up. But in reality, they're tiny. Can you see it? Are you focusing on it?

Now you're walking slower, moving gracefully with the softly falling snow. It's going to make it to the ground, but the wind is taking it on a tour - here come to the left, oh maybe a little to the right, oh, maybe fly up again. It's beautiful. It finally hits the ground and disappears. You're a little bit disappointed, because this one was your special one that you saw. You walk on realizing the beauty of each little speck as they fall around you. They're really quite special.

Freeze.

There's a saying that there are no two snowflakes that are alike. But to us, they look the same if we don't focus on their beauty.

No human being is the same. But they all seem the same in the crowd when we walk trying to live our busy lives.

Take a step back and focus on someone :-). Get to know their beauty.

That's what snowflakes taught me today.