Peace and Pastimes

Peace and Pastimes

Pastimes are defined as an activity that someone does regularly for enjoyment. When I am at the end of a day of work and sitting in my thoughts, I am at peace. Peace to me is being completely calm and accepting whatever is going on around me. I find peace when I am enjoying my favorite pastimes: writing, listening to my favorite music, and daydreaming.

Here is a link to one of my favorite songs, “Hand of God – Outro”, off the album "The Human Condition", by Jon Bellion. This specific song describes the peace you can find in knowing that your life is not in your hands. The song explains that sometimes we mess up, get lost, or break, but we can trust in the future and have faith. These themes expressed bring me peace whenever I am stressed or overwhelmed. It is music like this that can change your perspective and bring you peace. This album is especially stimulating due to its catchy rhythms, different sound, and meaningful lyrics.

Peace is a hard thing to come by and we often take it for granted. Peace is something I try to value, because when I am at peace I can truly enjoy the things I like to do. Some of my favorite pastimes are writing, listening to music, and letting my thoughts wander creatively. Something I often find myself doing is daydreaming. Daydreaming is incorporated in “letting my thoughts wander creatively”. 

Daydreams and wandering thoughts often inspire my poetry. Daydreaming is another peaceful pastime of mine because of the hopeful endings in each of the dreams. When you let your mind wander like this you can dream up anything and everything you choose to. I find I often daydream scenarios of love, excitement, and humor. Rarely do I find myself dreaming up something that is not positive.

This is another example of “The Hope in Wishful Thinking”. When I daydream, I don’t dream up things failing or ending, I dream up positive situations and circumstances that are full of hope.

This week’s poem is entitled “Renewal”. I wrote this poem when thinking of the hope you can find in what is to come. Much like a daydream, our goals for the future are full of hope for happy endings. Because of this, we can find peace when daydreaming and thinking about the future.

Such humility comes

when a love

so sought and dreamt

passes away

and somehow is replaced

with peace and contentment.