#AtoZChallenge : Boketto
I wake up and another day begins- a day that I’d have surely lived earlier. Confused? Let me explain. I feel like I’m living life on an auto pilot mode sometimes. I wake up each morning to do something that I did the previous day. There is the same routine to be followed, the same set of things to be done. All this leaves me wondering often if I’m living my life or if I’m living the same day a hundred times over. I think about it and I let the thought linger in my mind. But I can’t let it stay there for long. There are many other things to think about and I know I can’t keep thinking about what ifs.
I try to get back to routine, but there’s a part of me that tells me that I needed an escape. Could I skip my routine for once and just take the day as it came? It’s Monday – the beginning of the week. After the break called the weekend, I was supposed to feel refreshed to face the world. But it didn’t help me for I had a routine to be followed even during the weekends. All I needed was an escape.
I decide to take the day off. “Irresponsible”, cried a part of me that was used to following the routine. “Perfect”, cried the part of me that told me I needed to take it easy. I had no plan or agenda as I ventured into the day. I decided to go to a park. As I walked under the shade of the trees, amidst the chirping of the birds as the wind blew gently, I felt at ease. It was as if this was all I wanted to do. I stood by the lake and watched the gentle ripples on the surface. The many to-do lists that I had were pushed into insignificance. I stood there gazing at the beauty that surrounded me with no thoughts to pull me back. A sense of belonging washed over me. This was what I wanted to do – to breathe, to live and to feel whole without having to think about what to do next. Boketto. I felt at peace.
Boketto : Act of gazing vacantly into a distance without thinking
Origin : Japanese
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Gazing into the oblivion is peaceful. I too have those auto pilot thoughts sometimes. Routine does that.
Sometimes it is depressing. Life has nothing to offer but the same everyday. So a book, an unplanned Trip or even a walk in the garden or on the terrace help …
I love to Boketto too! 🙂 Nice to read about new words everyday… looking forward to the next one…
One of my favourite things to do. I always termed it as daydreaming. Now i have a much more beautiful word to associate. Boketto!
One of my favourite things to do. I always termed it as daydreaming. Now i have a much more beautiful word to associate. Boketto.
Boketto it is for me everyday… Just want to keep gazing
Oh I do love this word! I’ve never heard of it before. But I LOVE the idea of Boketto! Now I no longer need to feel I’m being lazy and doing nothing. I AM doing something! I’m doing Boketto! Thank you. 🙂 Brains! Are we stuck with what we have?
I feel you. The routine takes its toll over us many at times… and we search for that escape so desperately. Ah! Boketto indeed is one of the best method to take a break from this routine. It is refreshing and rejuvenating. Beautiful word Boketto!!
I do this at times, but not with such a view to behold. I think it’s the lack of distracting thoughts that make the view, whatever it is, beautiful. 🙂
Waah, that’s another new word! It’s up to us whether life will have a everyday sameness or something fresh everyday.
Oh god… I have so many hilarious stories of boketto – doing this and getting called out by people on the other side for gazing/drooling
What a word! Having a hyper active kid and busy schedule, I rarely get time to gaze aimlessly.
Dropping by Write Tribe FB group.
https://www.rohankachalia.com/2018/04/behind-the-veil-day-2-a-to-z-challenge/
Great theme and a beautiful post. Sometimes all we need to do is ‘stand and stare’.All the best!
Boketto. A good thing to do on a regular basis to maintain centeredness. So I think.
Sometimes when I am too tired or clueless about what needs to be done, I just gaze into blankness. It helps me destress. I know the word for it now.
Such a beautiful word. I could do with more bokettos in my life at the moment.