BEAUTIFUL DAYS AND NIGHTS...:)

Its 3:00am in the morning and the weather outside is beautiful, owing to some early showers and a light dust storm this evening. The night is as dark as it can get and the skies are clear with a modest sprinkling of stars just visible through the trees and the air is smelling divinely of rain. There is something so calming and peaceful about standing in the balcony this late at night thats its almost therapeutic. It makes me forget all the strains and tensions of the day. I just want to stand there and inhale the natural scent of the earth with my eyes closed. I want to go for a long walk or maybe just sit on the terrace alone with a book and perhaps a mug of hot coffee.
But 'sigh' lets admit it....its laaaaate....verry late and I cant go for a walk for obvious reasons. I can't enjoy my own balcony or the guards stare as me as though I have lost my mind or am in serious trouble or something! Remember when life was simpler and you could sleep outside when there was power failure. Believe it or not I have done that...many times in the past. Tai-tau, mom-dad, Aayush and I , everybody...we used to sleep on the terrace once in a while if the generator wasn't working (and if you have ever lived in my house, you would know that this happens an awful lot of times). Its sad that we don't do this anymore. I wonder why we ever stopped.
As much as I love the beauty of early mornings, I have decided that they are not really the thing for me. It has now dawned on me (no pun intended) that I am, as jahnvi aptly name me, a night owl. It has always been me, among all my freinds who has stayed up the entire night doing absolutely nothing. I have witnessed many a dawns and sunrises and heard many early prayers without going to bed, and actually sleeping after 6 in the morning. I can work as late as you would want me to without a shadow of a frown. Just don't make me get up early in the morning if you would rather avoid witnessing an entire day of snapping, grumbling, pouting and a general air of drowsiness. Even just now, I have been at the computer, studying, for the past 3 hours, until I decided to take a break. That's when I stepped out to the balcony for a minute to get some fresh air and took in the scene of absolute serenity outside. So i decided to write about it. Hey, if i cant enjoy it, atleast i can grumble about it to you, which mind you, i am very good at doing.
And now, I am afraid, I better get back to what I was doing earlier, which was reading about the missile programmes of India and Pakistan.
So here's wishing even more beautiful weathers all through the year to you.
Lots of love,
$alOni.