starry starry night

i saw a starry starry night in the dark sky of nepal.

i was on an overnight bus to another place with my trekking guide and his friend. we were stopping by a small town for a while. the whole town was in darkness and i saw candles lit up in the shops. in nepal, they did not have enough electricity. the government had to cut off the electricity for a few hours everyday to conserve. the problem was, there was no fixed timing for the electricity cut-off. sometimes you could be caught off guarded, especially if you were still showering in the bathroom. i experienced that when i was staying with my trekking guide at kathmandu.

incidentally, while sitting in the bus, i looked up into the sky. wow! there were millions and millions of stars, shining ever so brightly. the sky was breathtaking! i hardly saw a sky full of stars in singapore; too many streetlamps, over shining the stars.

a whole universe up there, thousands of light years ahead, vast and mysterious, made human beings look so small. i wondered if there was someone looking down at me as well. i believed the universe had its own law, of  how everything would turn out. we were constantly in the midst of the happenings and sometimes we felt lost. we started questioning, we wanted some answers, yet maybe only time could tell. often, when we looked back, everything started to make sense and fall in place. everything happened for a reason.

that was a beautiful night, let me admire the stars and believe in the power of the universe.