Mid-Autum Festival,The Moon, Its Allure And Time

We are all so often busy and engrossed in our daily occupations that we don't realise how quickly time passes by.

Then when we look up and see the moon, it's when we realise there is life out there apart from the mundane.

And today is another Mid-Autumn Festival Day (what we here in Bolehland call Mooncake or Lantern Festival Day) another year in the march of mother time.

There is this allure of the moon that makes you pine for something beyond the mundane. Something that is transcendental. Or the not so transcendental.

Like how the famous Chinese poet Li Bai 李白 mourns at the sight of the celestial lantern.

Pic By Ordinary Malaysian

Still Night (静 夜 思)
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床前明月光
Chuáng qián míngyuè guāng
疑是地上霜
Yí shì dìshang shuāng
举头望明月
Jǔtóu wàng míngyuè
低头思故乡
Dītóu sī gùxiāng

Outside my bedroom window, the moon shines bright
The ground seems frosted over
Looking up, I see the glowing, bright moon
Looking down, I pine for my dear old home

Note: Excuse my feeble assay at translation.