{"id":117,"date":"2002-12-25T13:47:43","date_gmt":"2002-12-25T13:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=117"},"modified":"2008-02-03T01:35:17","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T17:35:17","slug":"86520132","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"[115] Of shivering bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I was on my way for Baits I from the stillness of Baits II. It was snowing and windy and at the same time, a weather alert was declared by the local authority. A snowstorm was expected but Ann Arbor didn&#8217;t suffer much of the anticipated storm. Nevertheless, the snow reaffirmed that winter is here to stay, at least until the lovely spring comes back.<\/p>\n<p>I found myself shivering. My fingers were numb but I wouldn&#8217;t have suffered the numbness if I had been a little bit careful about my belonging.<\/p>\n<p>While walking alone toward Baits I, I looked upward and saw countless snowflakes falling gracefully from the sky above. My heart stopped beating for a moment as I struggled to comprehend the magnificence of the moment.<\/p>\n<p>It was simply exhausting to me. My legs were weakened by the grandiose of Mother Nature.  She is so beautiful. I stood alone with my winter gear save the lost leather glove to savor the moment of bliss that was mine. No words could describe the feeling that I felt. The only way to describe it is to be in that moment. To describe it with words is simply a fallacy.<\/p>\n<p>The wind was frightfully strong but somehow, I stood against it. The numbness was unbearable but somehow, I didn&#8217;t realize it. I held out my hand into the air and a modest amount of flakes accumulated on my palm. It was cold yes but the feeling was simply what I cherish the most. It was a total bliss.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/winterLighting.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"Some rights reserved. By Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams\" title=\"Some rights reserved. By Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>I was all alone, standing in the middle of a vast open space with a thick carpet of snow covering the earth. It was a clean carpet with no trace of being defiled by human presence. It was as white as you could ever imagine. White and clean with peace and bliss.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I would die in that moment while all my senses were numbed. I wish I had died in that bliss so that any burden won&#8217;t troubled me anymore.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t long before my sense brought me back to reality. The cold pain pulled me back down to the ground. No more able to withstand the low temperature, I walked hastily for my destination. After all this, I still wonder why human is still blind. My hope is that it isn&#8217;t too late to save the world from greed and hate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I was on my way for Baits I from the stillness of Baits II. It was snowing and windy and at the same time, a weather alert was declared by the local authority. A snowstorm was expected but Ann Arbor didn&#8217;t suffer much of the anticipated storm. Nevertheless, the snow reaffirmed that winter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}