The 11th image from the top of my gallery is this massive, majestic, heavenly spotlights piercing through dark, heavy clouds, called the crepuscular rays. They happen when sunlight passes through gaps in the clouds and gets scattered by particles in the atmosphere, making the beams visible to us. The rays only look like they’re spreading out from the Sun because of perspective. In reality, sunlight travels in parallel beams.
I learned this term in my last days at work, as if it was one of the final things I gotta learn there.
This 8.477th image was the one I took at the canteen near my office. That day was so bright, with a few big clouds covering the sun until I noticed the shadow they created and took a pic. It was like a farewell gift from that canteen that offers a lot of delicacies for corporate slaves’ lunch. There was no specific food menu or stall that was good enough to make me wanna come back. But at that time, it was a good place for me to run away from the rigidity of the office.
It’s cute how things in the sky can look enormous and mysterious, but sometimes it’s just things. They block the light and create shadows, just like the way we use our hands to cover our eyes from the sun. And maybe it’s better because it didn’t last forever, as if reminding us that even for a few minutes, the sky can look that beautiful.
I guess I wasn’t taking a photograph of the view itself. Maybe I was capturing the version of me that existed in that moment, the one who, even when I was at my lowest, could still get excited when seeing the clouds playing with light and shadow.
