Oh, the feeling.
June 3rd, 2009 in Uncategorized by Stephanie Shepherd
At approxmiately 8:25pm tonight, I noticed that I had heard thunder. Odd, I thought to myself, I don’t hear any rain, but it still sounds pretty close. As I get up to check outside of my window, I noticed that it was indeed lightning outside without any other signs of a storm. I also noticed that my neighbor was still out fixing his two cars, something I suppose he likes to do, since he and my mother’s boyfriend tend to talk about motor vehicles from time to time. Taking into consideration that it is lightning out, I take the first avaible opportunity to go outside and watch it. Living in West Virginia, storms this exciting do not occur very often, and when they do, it’s for a very short amount of time. I get my iPod out of my purse on my bed, which isn’t made from the nap that I took earlier, and I go down the stairs, like a preschooler anxious to get on the bus for the first day of school. As I get to the bottom of the stairs, I realize it has gotten very windy outside, and this usually is calming because of the trees and their leaves, it makes me feel like nature is surrounding me completely. I open the door and step outside; another lightning bolt hits nearby over the western mountain. I walk outside onto the porch and notice little droplets hitting me on the forehead. It wasn’t cold as I thought it would be, it was a calming sensation. I shake my iPod for it to shuffle and skip a few songs, not even looking at what they were, and it lands on a song by the Smiths. It’s called Panic, and I felt it had the perfect vibe for the storm outside. I turn it up a little bit so I can hear it over the deafening thunder nearby. I walk out into the grass, lifted my arms up, and just breathed in nature itself. Everything was perfect at this moment. I had became completely at peace with myself. I noticed that, yes, I have made mistakes in life like anyone else in the entier universe, but with those mistakes comes habits, and it takes a lot to conqure those habbits, but I must do it. I’ve messed up so much in my life, but I believe it’s okay because I have gained a new perspective with those mistakes. You only get one life and what you do with it is your choice, but my point is that nature can make you realize a lot of new things, and with realization comes change. I waltzed around the backyard with just my iPod by my side and the rain lightly touching me, the wind blowing my hair wherever it wants, with no goal at the time. I had such silence, it was amazing. It didn’t matter where you looked, lightning was everywhere, as if my backyard was the center of a gigantic storm in the surrounding counties. I then decided to go back inside. As I was walking towards the back door of my house, I noticed a little pink ball that we had gotten at a fair at a high school. It was gently rolling towards me, the wind being its motive. I then said my goodbyes with the storm, hoped it would come again, and walked back up the stairs of the back deck, opened the door, and walked back inside my dark, chilled house. Nature is a beautiful thing, isn’t it?
