Orange splashes with yellow rays turning to pinkish hue, then gradually combining with purple and then blue, then becoming indigo. What beauty to marvel at!
The feeling which envelopes my being whenever I watch the sun set is priceless. It's my favorite time. It's seeing through the day. Being able to watch the sun kiss the horizon goodbye is much like saying goodbye to what have been and feeling hopeful to what will be.
It reminds me of home. It makes me remember afternoons spent during my childhood - either pretending to be asleep so I can go out and play when my mom sleeps, plucking out white hair from her head, doing Papa's nails, playing house with my siblings using lotion bottles and colognes because we don't have actual toys to play with. It's nostalgic. I'd hear our laughter from a distance, I'd hear stories we'd exchange during merienda, or while we were doing our respective household chores. It makes me feel a thousand emotions by just being a spectator.
It also reminds me of my first love. Of how we'd sneak at the sixth floor of the main building in between breaks to watch the sun set: side by side, hands linked, hearts hoping we can stay that way for a long time. Of how we'd hug each other and make promises, never knowing what life has in store for us.
Seeing the sun set gives me comfort - in knowing that it's mission for the day is finished and will get its rest to rise and shine again tomorrow. Colors changing - light to dark, and even darker hues. It makes us realize how important darkness is. How much we need it so we can appreciate and bask in the light. It makes us contemplate on our relationships, even our own mortality and humanity.
Sunsets are a culmination of what is; and is an important part of the day aside from awakening. Because it marks that something has finally reached an end and you have survived through it, and that you are ready for yet again another challenge.
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