Corner with a Full View

To trivialize things, to trivialize your life. To deliberately grind your own life to a series of trivial meaningless things, just to escape from reality, just to shut out the world. Just to stop the noise getting to you. Just to make things dissolve, dissipate, fade, disappear until you do not have to think about them anymore. To make yourself into nothing in your own eyes, from a something, once upon a time.

Hundreds of cherry trees in full bloom lined the whole arch of tidal basin. As I walked along the water, with the cherry trees on my side , I was truly enchanted by the exuberance of the blossoms. Photo 1: Walking along the Tidal Basin The golden evening sunlight illuminated this whole setting: the water, the grass, the incredibly beautiful cherry blossoms, the people, and the distant buildings. I could see the Jefferson Memorial across from me rising above the waters, while the Washington Monument dominated the faint skyline of downtown DC on my far left. Photo 2: Jefferson Memorial framed by the Blossoms A light wind continually blew the soft petals bathing us in petal showers, which made me feel like I was in a royal procession of some kind. Heaven, I thought, must be like this.