reassuring comfort

Its been a while since I've posted on here, mainly just because of what I needed to do after the earthquake(s). While the event didn't affect me much physically, there was some mental issues that I needed to deal with before I got back to the normalcy of my routine life. The time that it took for me to process has gone and I feel like I'm back to a sense of security now that I've had the time to go through it all in my mind. Thanks for your patience.

That sense of security was prevalent today as I made my way home from school this evening. Its Tuesday and while this is usually a day for practice, today was a bit different. We were scheduled to play another local team, our first match of the year, but that match was canceled; they had some bad excuse and I just took it and moved on. So I ran a haphazard practice and then came home afterwards. Leaving school at 7:30 pm means that I'm going to be running into high rush hour and it took me waving down a few cabs before I finally got one that wanted to drive me out to Miraflores for a decent rate.

As I climbed in the back seat of the taxi, I reached over my right shoulder and pulled the safety belt across my body and locked it into place. The cab motored away and I felt relaxed in this cab as we headed off into the fray of rush hour. In a lot of cabs here, seat belts are just starting to be put in to the back seats and there are plenty of vehicles out there without belts. Its not something that I look for when hailing a cab so its kinda luck-of-the-draw as to what you get.

The comfort that this seat belt brought to me made me realize just what little things in life can do for you. It wasn't just the belt itself but the symbol it took for me at that moment in the cab. The idea of the small things meaning the most and comfort being derived from the simple and mundane made me smile - sometimes life just gives you reason to smile, and for bizarre reasons.

So here's to the safety belt that I put on this evening. Cheers for the warm fuzzy!