I had a perfect Vesak Day.

1130: After a mere 7.5 hours of slumber, I get up, have lunch and watch the Motorcycle Diaries. This show started it all. The nostalgia. You can't not feel nostalgic when a film's opening lines tell you that this is about two lives intersecting for a while, and two people sharing their dreams, their love for the open road.

1500: Audrey, Paul and I head to Queensway for an indulgent shoe shopping escapade. This is definitely what new-memory-making is about. Doing something a little out of the ordinary, departing a little from everyday occurrences.

2000: Straight after dinner, Nat and I buy cookies and eat them while we go shopping for shoes. Again.

2230: I haul out a stack of photos taken last December with a disposable camera. It's amazing how each and every photo has an extremely ephemeral quality about it. Slightly hazy, and some were just a little out of focus. Photos of the garden in the Huon Valley, a photo of Daphne posing against heart-shaped hot-air balloons graffiti-ed on a wall in Hobart, a photo of people feeding ducks in Richmond. A whole bunch of photos of my leaving party in Perth. And a few of me after I'd come home.

2350: I had it good. I wouldn't exchange any of those memories for anything, even if some of them haven't been pleasant, and others have been painful. And yes, it might be a long time before I get to live an epic life once more. But I'm still going to work towards it. I'm going to live my one lifetime in anticipation of those perfect ephemeral moments.

posted by beautiful at 8:17 am