When Stars Misguide Us

Sitting among the trees contemplating life’s secrets and suddenly I hear screams from the distance.

“As the drops of water fall onto the leaves, it makes me feel lonely,” I write these words down in my brown leather journal.

I am sitting under a gazebo on the trails alone, and the rain is coming down hard.

I can hear the drops of rain bouncing off the top of the roof. The noise is relaxing.

I am in my own world here with the trees and rain.

Thoughts about life start to pop into my mind. The loudest thought is a quote from the book Fight Club.

“We don’t have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club.

A great war of the spirit, I repeat this over and over in my mind. I begin to get lost in the concept. The great war of the spirit. Our souls are at war. We are at war within ourselves.

I hear a scream that sounds like it is from a far distance.

I thought I was the only one on this rainy trail, I think to myself.

I begin to feel danger in the air and I quickly feel vulnerable out here, almost like an animal in nature. I get up from my bench and begin to walk in the pouring rain.

“My car is only a 10-minute walk away,” I say to myself.

My footsteps are getting quicker as I hear the screams get closer. It sounds like someone is yelling for help, should I go and see what is going on?

I stop my footsteps and look behind me, and in the distance, I see a young couple holding hands and running towards me in the rain, howling with big smiles on their faces.

They pass me and in this foggy rain, they look like spirits or ghosts fading into the misty abyss.

Emotions hit me like waves in the sea. I think to myself about love and the concept of love.

I am one of the lucky people who found my true love at 15. I knew it the first time I looked into their eyes. I knew I would marry them and I did. We have been together for 12 years now.

Oh, how love is such a beautiful and complicated concept but without it, we are nothing.

Once society gives up on love, we will forever be doomed.

I am almost to my car, which is the only vehicle left in the empty parking lot, and the rain, of course, stops.

Days like these I treasure because nature always is here to remind me of what is beautiful in life.

This is a short fiction writing mixed in with some facts about my life. Thank you for reading. I appreciate you.

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