Your Happy Place

Another thread came in. Although I’m always pleased to see something new from the Teens, their entries often sadden me.

BODY;ENCODING=QUOTED Moonbeam01101000-01100101-01100001-01100100-The night has fallen as i crawl up onto the van to start my night watch. It's easy to lose your head up here, all alone, while the darkness surrounds you with sorrow, and you’re searching for something that might be searching for you. 01110011-01101000-01101111-01110101-01101100-01100100-01100101-01110010-01110011-I want to sing to keep my mind off this situation but i can't for i might wake the others or attract unwanted guests. So to keep myself sane I silently pretend i am sitting on a dock at the end of a lake near my childhood home:[THT ENCD] “It's a perfect day and i have my feet swinging over the water.I am laughing with my best friends.; embracing, kissing and hugging as if we hadn't seen each other in yearsthe sun gently tickles my skin. 01101011-01101110-01100101-01100101-01110011The brush that is all along the shoreline is covered with birds
01100001-01101110-01100100 a harmony unlike any other
just pure sweet song for my friends and I. 01110100-01101111-01100101-01110011 one bird stands alone and suddenly it flies up, up and away.i miss this beautiful bird that flew away all alone.” 01101011-01101110-01100101-01100101-01110011
see even my happy thoughts turn sour somehow01100001-01101110-01100100 this thought slowly trails away as i forget where i am, as i lay my head down on top of the van forgetting i was on night watch & thinking i was at home, in my bed. 01110100-01101111-01100101-01110011 END:VNOTE

What kind of world do we live in? What is wrong with us? Why should any person; young or old, need to stand watch to guard against the night, against other people who would do them harm? Other people. Not wild animals, not a force of nature- but other human beings. I know it’s nothing new- I remember enough of history to know that this type of behavior has always been with us. But all the same I wish that anyone could sit under a starry night sky and enjoy that moment without the threat of attack tainting it.