Is there anyone who doesn't like sunsets? I honestly don’t think so. It really can not be possible that someone does not like this ethereal beauty that we get to witness. As a person who is always mesmerised by the beauty of the sky, I really love to watch sunsets more than anything else.
Do you know what they call someone who is a sunset lover? It is called ‘Opacarophile’. Beautiful. Isn’t it? It is a combination of Latin and Greek words. Opacare is a Latin word which stands for sunset or dusk and Phile is a Greek word that means Love. I really admire this term.
As the day comes to its end, it draws the curtain with a beautiful sunset. You can never see the same sunset twice. The sun casts a warm glow across the horizon. I always find myself drawn to the window or looking at the sky at this time. The sky looks like a painting. And it's a different painting every day. Someday it is painted in hues of orange, some days it's pink or violet, someday it's reddish or someday it's just plain blue or grey. The clouds that floats on the sky looks exactly like cotton candies at that time. They keep passing all over the sky and sometimes paint themselves in different colours too. However it is, it is always beautiful. I watch carefully how the colour plays with the sky as if it is a canvas. It keeps transforming every minute. Each passing minute it brings a new burst of colour and such eye beholding beauty. I feel mesmerised.
There is something about this particular time of the day that stirs something inside me. I feel calm. Honestly, looking at the sunset feels like therapy to me. It definitely heals something inside of me. No matter how rough the day was, if I get to see a beautiful sky at the end of the day, I would feel relaxed and it would calm me down. It is safe to say that it is not just about the beauty of it, for me it is more than that. With each sunset I feel I am connected emotionally. There’s different emotions for different sunsets. As in, the day I would get to see the sunset with pink hues I would feel so happy about it for the rest of the day. On the other hand when it gets orangish or yellow, I would feel relaxed and calm. And the days it is greyish, I would feel the senses of sadness. I always wonder, is it only me? Or the other people who watch the sunset in awe feel the same!
The sunset always ends with a bitter-sweet feeling. It is like even the good stories come to an end or a bad day can also draw its curtain in a pretty way. To me, it always feels like - Hope ; A hope that no matter how your day was, it will always come to an end. Sometimes it’s very pretty and sometimes it’s just gloomy. But no matter what, it’d pass. Even when I have a really bad day and get to see a nice sunset, it feels like some endings can be really beautiful despite how the whole story was. This is more like the universe is telling me not to quit, maybe tomorrow is going to be better.
Growing up, I have always been the person who’d sit and look at the sky for hours. There were days when I simply went to the terrace and sat for hours, looked at the sky, closed my eyes, breathed in deeply, letting the warm afternoon breeze fill my lungs and felt a sense of calmness. I would sit there from afternoon until the sun finally sets, making it dark everywhere. I knew as long as I could witness these sunsets, there would be hope for me.
Someone once asked me, if I get to know that this is my last day to live, what would you want to do? I couldn’t think of anything specific but I knew that by the end of the day I would probably just like to sit somewhere I can clearly see the sky while hoping for a pink sunset for the ending of the day.
We city people honestly don’t have many natural things to feel happy about. But I would always be thankful that we do have sunsets and we get to witness this magnificent thing with literally open eyes. I honestly love to look at these amazing sunsets over this busy city. Some might think that I am totally exaggerating but I honestly think everyone should try this at least once. Like, try looking at the sky for some time, admire how pretty it is, how magnificently it plays with those colours and draws the curtain of the day in the most artistic way. I bet you would sense the healing energy of it just as me.
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