Live Your Life Be Free!

We just finished our (pretend) Christmas (we don’t celebrate, but we get a tree and do stuff with family), and we have been settling in to the new apartment. Basically, we live a 20-second walk away from lake Ontario, in an area of Toronto called “The Beach”. It is really beautiful here, and we have been going on walks every day, sometimes twice!

Last night we went on a walk together, to see the lake steaming and the snow steaming. It was about 10 degrees celcius out, and it was beautiful. It looked all mysterious and full of magic. We looked up and saw a full starry sky – much more brilliant than the usual for the city. We were out with our camera, and saw a few other couples doing the same, but mostly it was deserted.

I wondered – where the heck are all the people? This beauty should not be part of a secret night. People should be out enjoying it too. Yeah, I realize that this sounds no fun and good for you, but it is just such a loss. I remember around the time Nintendo came out, the first really fun game console (I think those who have played Atari and Intellivision agree that it was not nearly as fun) – that was when the kids on my street stopped playing outside.

Have the rest of us done the same? Are we not playing outside anymore? Are we too busy with our glowing screens to see the world outside? I hope not!