Snow Day

At 9am it was barely snowing, by 4pm it looked like a blizzard! Its amazing, I've never seen so much snow in my life! I also rarely use as many exclamation marks in my writings so this post is a first. But snow deserves exclamation points, I think, because it makes everything look new and bright! Its so strange and foreign, yet you immeadiatly accept it as something beautiul.

Snow seems to do something to a person. It makes people want to write poetry, snuggle up with a lover by the fire place, make children beg to go outside and play in the fairyland, and make elders reminisce. I wanted to take pictures. And I took many pictures. I found it very cold, and very annoying when my brothers started to chase me around with snowballs. I end up running around trying to protect my camera. Eventually I ended up sliding on icy concrete and landing on my butt. My camera, however got through the fall unscathed.

Afterwards I started chasing them back, two against one, but I believe the game was a tie. I'm faster than them even though they are both taller than me and only one is older. Its so sad, I was hoping to reach 5'8, but alas I had to stop growing two inches short. Anyway, back to snow. I'm not much of a poet but I did devise (to my own surprise) a short haiku.

Anticipation

As the world is enveloped

White blurring the land

It kinda sucks, but who cares? I like it. Something is in the air, I believe, because every school child is waiting to know if school will be closed tomorrow also. We all want this four day weekend and more snow to play in. Haha, snow makes everyone children. I should've been doing my biology project, but the lure of the pristine landscape got the best of me. And I had to be out there before it was disturbed to take pictures, of course.

Out there as it was snowing I watched it gather on everything it could, barely feeling the cold on my cheeks, and felt so at peace it almost frightened me. Is that strange? To be frightened by peace? To feel a slight panic that nothing was happening, therefore something is wrong? It was very strange, and it made me start wondering, "is this why we fight so much?" Now I am definitely not saying that this is the cause for wars and all the terrible things that are caused by human faults. But I do think that somewhere in the back of our minds we're afraid of peace. What would we do if we had no disputes to settle, no vengence to take, or no wars to fight for our country?

What would we do?

Its sad but I think its part of our nature. There will never be real peace until we become less human or there are no humans at all.

Wow, at the begining of this post I was using exclamation points and was practically overflowing with happiness, now it ends so soberly. How melancholy and pessimistic I am. Oh well.