Beach at Midnight
We went to the beach at midnight. Ryan Lauren Katie Penny Melissa and Penny's Friend whose name I forgot. It was actually one of the most serene things I've ever seen in my life, minus the graveyard in Japan on top of Mt. Koya where I wasn't allowed to take pictures. The water was glassy, with the reflection of the full moon the only blemish on its surface. Even then, not so much a blemish as a "beauty mark."
We'd never been to the beach when it was like that. Usually it's windy, so the water's choppy and it's somewhat uncomfortable to stand on the shore while the wind constantly whips at your face. This is one of those nights that makes you think though. I thought about the fact that I only have ten days of class left. 6 classes each of biology, economics, and Japanese. 4 classes of math and philosophy. Two bio labs. One bio discussion. Pretty soon, I'll be a sophomore in college. My mind kept whirling around about where I'd be in four years, what I'd be doing, and of course what car I'd be driving. But then I stopped and smelled the proverbial roses. Because as they say:
Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
This didn't really serve any point other than a grossly literary explanation of my night last night. Oh well.
Comments
Also cool is late at night on a large beach with those huge sand tractor things sweeping the beach in a line. So it's dark and calm, except for the line of blinding lights moving across. Not serene, but very surreal.
Posted by: Jeremy | April 16, 2006 07:54 PM