I have a few more shifts on night rotation before I go back to the mundane world of working day shift for 4 months. While I get much more done in regards to the various areas of responsibility I answer for, I will miss those unique individuals who reside hidden in the shadows of the night. Those saints and sinners who have chosen the moon over the sun, the dark over the light, and, in many cases, the sublime over the normal.
Night is Normal for Some
In a recent exchange on another article, I made the following comment:
Oh no, I definitely meet interesting people during the day, but there is a wonderfully, special breed of people that inhabit the night. It is a magical time when they let their fangs show and their true natures loose.
This statement personifies that rare breed that walks with the shadows, going about their nightly routines in spite of the lack of that guiding star high above showing the way across the horizon. There is something fascinating about the effect the night has on people. Things move a bit more slyly, like the mood of those walking beneath the moon, hand in hand, sharing the secrets of their soul on vaporous whispers, connected for the briefest of moments.
Night Has a Life of Its Own
If you have never traversed the tranquility of the night on a regular basis, it is hard to grasp the shift that occurs when you inhabit that world. Reality tilts on its axis ever so slightly to allow the improbable to become possible. It allows your shadowy dreams to become a bit more anchored. The shadows hold an immeasurable amount of “what may be” that can only be accessed by those who are versed in the cryptic language of the night, those vagabond cowboys that hold the secrets of the universe within a pack of unfiltered Camels. Those metropolitan mystics living through ancient visions performed upon the glistening pavement of the wine-soaked alleys. “From the ridiculous to the sublime is but a step”, these prophetic utterances from Napoleon proves he perused the pathways of the nocturnal, for only at the darkest witching hour can such wisdom be seized.
Yes, I will miss the glorious embrace of the night.
You may also like my article about an interesting fellow I met one night.
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