Auditory Breath

I never gave much thought to the influence a sound or a smell can have on you. Sounds create a certain feeling or trigger a memory. Sounds inspire movement and create moods. Sounds can bring back a moment in time, or completely make a new one. A moment or a feeling can be enhanced or deteriorated due to a sound and its effects on a person or people. Auditory senses are usually taken for granted in my everyday life, and then,
I stop.
I listen.
I close my eyes, breathe in the moment and feel everything that comes with the sounds and smells around me. It is strange to think a sound or smell can alter and influence a mind and its perception of the things happening. First is the sound, then the reaction then action. Then there is smell, which also has the same effects as sound. A smell can have just as much power as a sound. Then put the two together, and the sounds and smells begin to work together to weave intricate feelings and memories into your brain. The memories with sound and smell are richer and fuller, they have more grit. If you pay close attention I believe the memory will not loose its origional luster as quickly as a memory born of action alone when there is more than one sensory element involved.
Time is a bandit who steals things away before we even know they belong to us in the first place. By diving in to the moment with all of our senses, by drinking in each smell, and bathing in the sounds we can in effect grasp tighter to the moments time will take from us.
The little moments in that are there and gone in the blink of an eye can live a longer life in the mind if you simply touch each and every aspect of a moment with your senses. I think I will take more time to notice the sounds and smells, take more time to breathe in life and listen to time and the beat it dances to.

I feel alive tonight, perhaps it will last a while.