A peaceful moment

Sometimes a peaceful moment comes to you in an unexpected time and at an unexpected place. A peaceful moment when suddenly all your problems, all the drama in your life, all the obstacles you know you have to get through the next day evaporates into the air. It's just you and your surroundings. Everything else disappears.

It happened to me last night.

I was just finished work by 1 a.m. Yes, 1 a.m. Don't ask. I hadn't eaten anything since noon, so 13 hours I didn't eat anything, my stomach hates me so much by now because I keep on abandoning him. Then my ojek driver picked me up, and we headed to my Apartment. I was so tired, even just sitting on the motorcycle, I felt like I might faint because I haven't filled my stomach with anything.

When we were just four blocks away from my Apartment, my ojek driver suddenly stopped by the Kwek-kwek cart. He said that he forgot to pay the Kwek-kwek he bought in the afternoon. And while he was paying, I bought some Kwek-kwek as well, because like I said, my stomach was completely empty. I told my driver to just wait for a little bit while I'm finishing my Kwek-kwek. So I sat by the sidewalk, just eating my Kwek-kwek, and looked at the people passing by.

And at that moment, I felt so peaceful that all the tiredness, all the stress, the problems, suddenly disappear for a while. At that moment, it was just me, the night sky, strangers passing by, and a cup of Kwek-kwek there. Nothing else, for a solid ten minutes before we continued heading home.

Sometimes a peaceful moment comes to you in the most unexpected time, and at the most unexpected place of all, you will never know when it will come, but you'll feel it when it's already there.