NYC inspiration

It’s winter here in NYC. Its cold and everyone is bundled. You’re lucky if you can see a persons’ face because everything else is so covered.

A drastic change from what this city looked like a mere few months ago.

The place: New York City streets
The time: Summer
The temperature: REALLY hot

I was walking down the street one day in the summer and I looked around. People were practically wearing bikinis. They were barely dressed. I couldn’t stand to look at people who didn’t have enough self respect and decency to cover their bodies, so I stopped looking at the people. I started looking at the billboards. WHOA! That was a mistake! The billboards were just as revealing, if not more. They plastered the most intimate of thoughts and acts all over. I was bombarded with things that I never wanted to see. Garbage words, images and messages.
If you cant look at the people or the billboards, where are you supposed to look? Quite simply… UP! And I discovered the most beautiful buildings. The architecture in the city is stunning. I’m an art fanatic and the designs are just breathtaking.
There’s a great lesson in this.
When you look around you and all you see is garbage, and everywhere you turn you are surrounded by shmutz..simply look UP! Look to the Heavens and see how wondrous Hashem really is. Look at His architecture of the world, see the beauty.
When things get ‘garbagey’ in life, don’t focus on the negative…there’s so much good that is yet to be discovered in your life!
Hashem should bless us with the clarity and the focus to be able to turn away from the garbage and find the gorgeous.