Stars under my Feet…

So my good good friend SS came over last evening…we spent some fabulous time catching up over music…happy around him…conversation comes so easy and naturally with no restrictions…lots of good music…lots of candles…just comfortably comfortable…glad we met… its so different from meeting in office or in a public space… you see people more clearly when the clutter around them is taken away… saw more of him than before…revealed more of me than before…
Anyway…so he was leaving.. walked him to the bus stop… showed him everything crazy in my universe… the tree outside…made him stand in the right spot where you can catch the flowers on the branches along with the sky and the stars… its nice to share things with people who value their value in your life…
So then I notice he’s looking down at the path… and I ask him to look up… you’re missing the stars S and he says something incredible…no look down, you’re missing the stars on the ground… and I looked down…he was right…there were stars on the ground that we were walking on…the little stones in the paved path, were glistening and shining so beautifully… I did not want to admit how right he was…and he was right…
On my way back from the bus stop, I focused on the ground and smiled a lot… why is it that the stars so far away appealed to me so much that I did not look at the ground? Why do things that are far away or out of reach appear more desirable than those that we are in constant touch with? Why can’t I value the ground that supports me more that the sky I can never touch? Need to value what I have more and long a little less for what I don’t…
thank you S : ) for showing me that...