Quiet corners

When you live in a city with 10 million inhabitants, finding a place outside your house where you can be alone for just a few minutes can be quite hard; but it's not impossible.

My favourite spot is my condo's laundry room - I sometimes get there before my clothes are ready and end up spending a couple of minutes looking at raindrops sliding down the windows and listening to the wind brushing through the trees.

Also, the other day I paid a visit to a spa (I treat myself kindly when I'm not working) and loved the garden just in front of it - apart from being very well taken care of, it had a cozy covered area where you could sit in a comfortable sofa. I had the opportunity to spend a few minutes there while waiting for the rain to stop. And it felt good to let the mind wander.

While walking around in Lumphini Park, I also discovered that it's possible to have a moment of peace in the Chinese Pavilion - a beautiful structure where I stood staring at a lake and listening to the crows.

As different as these locations are, they all have one thing in common - the fact that, for a split of a second, they allowed me to stop listening to all the noise, stop thinking about how to get somewhere, how to get something; for a split of a second, it was just me and all the beauty in the world.