It’s almost 4am and I can’t sleep because a storm of doom is
thundering overhead. There’s near constant lightning and thunder, so much hail
it looks like it’s snowed, and the water is pouring down like I’ve never seen.
To top it off the power’s out. (I’m on my laptop, which has a battery but the
wifi’s out so I’m on Word and this’ll be posted to the blog later.)
It’s funny the things that I’m noticing though. How when the
power goes out we kind of shut down, but at the same time we don’t. How even
without the computer I’m still on Facebook through my phone and seeing all the
status updates of those awake during the storm too. How I go to get a battery operated light, but
upon noticing the battery is dead I still go to plus it in before realizing
that won’t work.
There’s a weird clash of emotions too. Right now, sitting in
my bed with the light of my laptop and a light-up Sorcerer Mickey Vinylmation
I’m content. It’s almost peaceful just listening to the rumbling and the rain
in a little cocoon of soft light and blankets. Yet the second I climb out of my
bed everything is suddenly a lot more terrifying. It takes me back to when I
was a child and the only safe place at night was curled up in my bed, stick so
much as a toe out and something might get you.
I’m a very young adult but I’m definitely not a small child
anymore, so I wonder if the fear hasn’t gone away by now will it ever? On the
flip side though there will always be the safety of my bed.
DFTBA,
-Kim
P.S. It's evening now and clouding over again but most of the day was nice. The hail did quite a number on our yard though, the flowers are all pretty crushed and there's leaves and pine needles from the trees all over the place :S
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