Hi, again!I hope you've all been keeping up with my Facebook page! (24 likes is pretty exciting!) I just posted some pictures from last summer, but I wanted to tell you guys about my super fun weekend!
On Sunday, Katie and her friends (Curly-Haired Boy and Short Girl) took me to the Quad. It was so pretty outside, and we laid on the grass and looked at the sky and talked. It was nice to just get to relax, because Katie's been really stressed since school started. (Trash Bear Note: Don't tell Katie this, but she gets really stressed about a lot of things!) Then, they took me to this place called the Mountain. Have you guys ever been to the Mountain? You have to drive there, so we all got in a car and we drove up and up and up on this curvy road. It was really fun, but also kind of scary! So we kept driving and driving and driving, and the sun was getting closer and closer and closer. I thought we might actually catch the sun! Well, we finally reached the spot, because Curly-Haired Boy pulled over, and everyone got out. There were some other people here, too, and at first I was confused as to why.
But then I saw the sunset, and I figured that that's why they were all there.
I've really only ever seen a few sunsets in my life, but Katie talks about them a lot, and she says that Jacksonville sunsets are the prettiest sunsets in the whole world! And now I think she's right! The sky looked so pretty!! It was striped blue and purple and orange and yellow, and the sun was this tiny ball of fire and the mountains in the distance were purple, and the sky stayed all streaked with reds and pinks for a really long time after the sun was gone.
Curly-Haired Boy and Short Girl sat on the hood of his car, and Katie took a lot of pictures, and the car beside us played music really loudly. I'm pretty sure this is what it would feel like if life was a movie. No one said anything for a long time, so we just sat and watched the sun set. I thought about my life and how happy I am now compared to a year ago. I thought about my friends and how much I love them, and I thought a little bit about how sad I'll be when we all have to go our separate ways. But I didn't think about that too much, because that's sad. Every once in awhile someone would say something, but we didn't really talk much. We watched the other cars drive away until it was just us and Music Car. We could have been the only people and bear in the whole world just then, and that would have been okay with me.
And so we all sat around and watched as the sky got darker and darker, and we talked a little bit more, and finally the wind got a little cold, so we got back in the car and drove down and down and down the scary winding road, and the sky and sun got farther away, and the street lights got bigger, and the world got louder, and then it felt like real life again.
And that's a little bit sad. Because the Mountain seems like a really special place. No one was stressed out while we were watching the sunset. No one was worried about homework or tests or work or how they would get it all done. But as soon as we got back to the dorm it felt like it was time to worry about those things again.
I guess the good news is that the Mountain will always be there to calm us down if things ever get too stressful.
And that makes me happy.
~Trash Bear (and Katie)~
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