A WORD ON AWE

‘Ah’, the sweetness of ‘awe’. Children are born with it. Adults long for it. Too few take time to experience it.

The opposite of ‘Ah’ is ‘Yah, right’. ‘Ah’ is the human default emotion – unless I am wrong, and it is actually ‘weeeee’.

Daily newspapers sell ‘Oh, no’ and make cynicism look very appealing. But buy into it at a terrible price. ‘Ah’ is free except for the effort required to experience it.

Make it a personal discipline to take in what is around you to feel that sense of ‘ah’. Spring is prime time to be filled with strains of ‘ah’ like ‘whoa’ and ‘wow’. Take for example the awesomeness of birds singing again; of buds swelling, soon to burst into colour in a few weeks; or the return of the sun and the promise of warmer days.

Right now even, take a deep relaxed breath and feel the power of the universe within you. Let it all out and surrender to your own strength.

Under every ‘ugh’ lies a sense of ‘ah’ and on that expansive ‘awe’ the future of our expanding universe depends. Don’t stop at ‘ugh’. Don’t trip over ‘uh, oh’. Go for ‘ah’.

‘Uh’, that is all I have to say about ‘awe’.

Have an awesome week!