June 16, 2003

i still have friends in anchorage...

it's a wonder cuz most of the people i know did what i did: got the hell outta there as soon as possible
and i did it cuz people before me fled too...
looking back, maybe the desire to escape was cuz my childhood wasn't exactly (psychologically) stable..
if i had actually paid attention i would have noticed Nature in all her beauty ...
just the word "scenery" doesn't do it justice.. "scenery" is what you see in a postcard...
yeah, it sounds sappy, but you actually have to be there...
... the smell of pine, the crisp snap of the twigs, the cool clean air, the dew sparkling in the sun… where everything conveys a natural simplicity..
…aurora borealis… the most awe-inspiring sunsets and sunrises… and the biggest damn stars i ever saw in my entire life…

i always felt cut off from the rest of the world.. living in hick-ville frozen hell,
but it’s exactly the kind of place you want to go when escaping from the world, it’s the kind of place you want to be when everything and everyone around you is too loud and complicated… the kind of place where you can take deep breaths and not worry about pollution..

don’t get me wrong, i wouldn’t want to live there for all the bubble gum in the world…
but now, it’s become the place where i’d like to escape to once in awhile…
it’s not home… but it’s where i got started

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