So I was doing my usual 10k to and from town today, when I realized that life is really good right now. The temperature was quite hot but there was nice little constant breeze to make it bearable. I was to the stage of the walk where there was a huge corn field to the right of me and a semi open field leading down to the big trees surrounding the river and the city of brick makers. Falcons were gracefully gliding above me, playing with the breeze, while sparrows were swooping next me at suicide speed. I could hear the stupid monkey sounding birds off in the distance and a whole array of other organic sounds close and all around. At this moment, I thought to myself, damn life is really good right now. I don’t know if it can get much better than this? It felt good to take it all in. My steps were light under the red rocky road. This permeated my soul for another fifteen minutes or so until another thought popped into my head. I couldn’t help but laugh out loud at the direction my brain had gone it. People around stopped and stared even harder than they usually do. I thought to myself hmm, that’s really saying something to have the thought, hmm I don’t know if life can get much better than this at this current time? I laughed to myself thinking about the rice, beans, and cabbage I had been eating for a week straight, or how I have to fetch water in a Jerry can and then boil it just to drink it, or the 10 big hairy brown spiders I killed in my room this week. These things seemed to not faze me one bit. It’s amazing how much you think the important things matter when they don’t. I guess life could be a lot better. I could be eating delicious food or poop in a toilet instead of hole in the ground or enjoy the benefits of air conditioning and temperatures below 85 but its funny when you’re just living… all those things just seem to melt away.
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