I just spent ten minutes watching the (video) view of someone else’s window on Window Swap. This window belongs to Abdulrahman, who live in Giza, Egypt, and his window is front seat view to the Great Pyramids. What a view! 

I sat there, mesmerized, transfixed, at these ancient monuments, like as if I was there myself. The video was of course not in real-time, but for a brief moment, it felt like my own window, and I was there in Egypt. On the horizon, the pyramids sat, as they had for millennia. But in the foreground, faint but ever-present horns from the traffic below. It wasn’t annoying… in fact, it gave a sense of life to the otherwise still scene. Occasionally, a police siren goes off, or the louder horn of a large truck breaks the monotone. I felt like I was part of the life that’s flowing below, yet safely distant from it all, enveloped by a lazy midday calm. The clear, bluish grey sky out from quaint white louvre window; a soft glow of the afternoon sun; the jazzy symphony of the car horns below, and silent sentinels of the pyramids witnessing it all. A mood, like having just woken up after a siesta, still feeling the delicious half-sleep, but grateful for the life leaking in through the window. And eagerly looking forward to the evening dinner to come. 

A nice imagination trip, for sure. And strangely calming.

Super grateful to @andrewtsao for this recommending this cool resource.