construction

i'm working on my macroeconomics assignment at a study carrel in the baillieu library.
i'm right beside the window which overlooks a part of uni that's under construction and i can see very clearly what some of the constructors are doing. looking at the rows of steel structures and the crane that was lifting up a temporary workroom that looked like it was made up of corrugated tin sheets is quite fascinating.

i remember back in singapore when one of the houses that my room on the 15th floor overlooked was being reconstructed. the construction workers were climbing here and there, working on this, fixing that. and i wished i could be a construction worker for a day just to experience the thrill of climbing in those structures.

this building that they're constructing is more massive than that house, but small enough so that i'm able to look at it and see the different parts of the building's skeleton, not just a massive mess of metal mesh.

a few hundred years ago there wouldn't be such a structure. back in biblical times, there would definitely not have been anything close to such construction work. and thinking of the amount of progress cilivization has had to go through to reach such a stage is rather mindblowing. how can i not thank God for the amazing way He made our brains? always thinking of ways to improve, thinking of things to create! WOW!

now sitting in this old library that's got dust collecting on cobwebs on the window pane, i feel just a tad closer to the person who fed his family with money he earned from laying this wall, making the foundations that hold this structure up and fixing in this window im now looking out of.

haha maybe i should do a major in environments afterall!