when the sky fails you

Today I was walking by two dudes talking outside Humanities building and the one says, "today is a beautiful day, isn't it?" the other replies, "it really is glorious". I stood there for a second, processing this exchange. My perception of today cannot exactly be summed up in 'glorious'. It's chillier than I anticipated, and my legs have goosebumps. Not to mention that half of the sky is a teasingly bright blue, while the other half threatens rain...making me anxious since I don't have my umbrella. Today is one of those days that can't seem to commit to one particular description because it just can't make up it's mind. The irony in that just kills me. So I started pondering what might make a day "glorious", and came to the conclusion that glorious has big shoes to fill.

My first scenario of a glorious day is something like this: I wake up early to the sun shining in my window, and I'm energized instantly. There is a quartet serenading me as I get ready. Suddenly, it's announced that there are no classes for the day on account that it's entirely too nice outside to be in a classroom, and we are all ordered to go the beach. After the majority of the day having fun in the sun, friends and I enjoy a favorite dinner, shopping, and a movie. The entire day I have a sense that I am exactly where I want to be with whom I want to be with.

That would be a deliciously glorious day, no? It's just one of many examples I could think of, but each example shared something in common: there was something out of the ordinary and spectacular about them. They held a sense of perfection that is almost impossible to acheive. Scratch that--perfection in a day IS impossible to acheive. So I started rethinking what glorious could possibly mean to me. It hit me that today COULD be a glorious day despite the indecisiveness of the sky that I trusted so adimently to never fail me with it's rays of sunshine. Today is whatever I want it to be. I can choose to appreciate my time with my friends today as glorious, or the package I got in the mail as glorious. There are so many little things that are taken for granted in a day. When life gets rocky, there's an inclination to turn it all inward, but look around! We have today to do great things, to love others, to make new decisions, to create, to BE. That's so glorious.