Just Around the Corner
Some people would claim that it is impossible to see heaven. That it is untouchable. Unknowable. I disagree. I can witness heaven when ever I want, well, when ever I have 4G. Peaks from far away lands beckon, perfect lines in champagne powder send chills down my spine. It is only when the credits role am I snapped back into reality as hard as any lead fall. Even as the letters appear on this screen, my thoughts drift to the mountains, where my heart longs to be.
Graduation was over a week ago. The time has been spent working, working furiously to put together enough for the next semester. College will be a reality, but the bank may have an account that reads zero dollars when the first bell rings.
Its the feeling right before you kiss your new someone, the butterfly sense that inhabits your stomach with the first turns of the new ski season. The work has been done to get there. Buried deep inside all of us is the sense that even if it all goes wrong, things will turn out to be more then ok when we are pursuing what we are passionate about.
In the madness to acquire the resources that are needed to go to college, the thought crossed my mind, 'cancel your NOLS trip', NOLS would send me most of the money back and would cover all of my first semester costs with some left over.
The idea was quickly discarded.
Four years of my life have been spent gathering the money, like a squirrel gathers food for the winter. It has all been put together, and it is less then 3 weeks away.
My heaven is not going to be the HD screen of my phone. It will be the polarized, 3 dementional, larger then life. reality that will merely be sampled this summer. It will kindle a fire that will burn for the rest of my life. I can hardly wait to get there.
K
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