Rain
Written By DWilliam 7/05/2010 12:07:00 AM
"Life is a puzzle, every piece fits together to create who we are, what we do, how we feel. Every experience shapes us into who we will become I began my life as a blank slate...I'd been so eager to remember, to grow up and experience life...But in that one moment, I wished I could go back to that blank slate. When life was... easier."
-Kyle XY, Diving In
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Its been raining a lot here lately, and oddly, I haven't minded all that much. Me and Texas usually get along so well because I'd rather be sweating my ass off than freezing it off, but the days of muggy drizzle that have been happening have been a subtle reprieve for me. Not that I want it to rain all the time now, it just feels like Texas is right here with me now, every step. I realize just how crazy that sounds, but thats what it feels like. The way the storms would whip up out of nowhere, as Texas rain usually does, or the type of wind that came with it: Warm but soft, bringing thick tears of water with it. And as the torrents of foggy wind and curtains made of misty droplets flew in viscous wisps, I couldn't help but look up and smile, a small current running down my spine.
People don't realize just how magnificent this place is- The world I mean. Everyone seems so concerned with their own little reality shows and intersecting webs of their own lives to just stop. To look, and listen. No one really just watches anymore, and sometimes, thats what we really need. Like how a cool breeze coming off of a lake can be like a kind, reassuring voice in your ear. Or how the half-light before the dark and the silence it brings eases every muscle, as if we're being called home. Or how it seems like our hearts rise as the sun does, every inch of us warming at the sight of that burnt sky.
People don't do that enough.
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