My body was telling me to keep walking, with my head lost in a cloud of thoughts. I just kept moving. Not sure which direction I really should take, but it mattered not. It was the movement that my body so badly desired.
I had found myself in quiet a precarious situation, not so long ago. Trapped within a vessel, with barely any room to move. How long I had been there? I can not tell. I have no idea what day it is, but from the sky above me, I know that it has passed midday.
I wasn't even sure where I was, when I did find my way it. Nothing looked familiar to me, this was a place I had no memory of ever being in. And yet I didn't panic, I surprised myself, by how calm I actually was.
Had I been expecting this?
I had no idea, but the certainty of my calmness, was enough to soothe me. I had found a way out of my confinement and I was greeted by sunlight, light that blinded me at first. But I was so happy to feel the warmth of it on my face.
Then I could feel the earth beneath my feet and I knew that I was going to be okay. I just needed to move, to walk away from this place and never look back.
So I keep walking, through land that seems to have been long forgotten about. One foot in front of the other. So happy, to be breathing in clean fresh air. So happy, to hear the birds and insects fill the sky with their wonderful songs.
And then, it was as though the ground fell away beneath me, as I now find myself in the middle of a busy street.
It must be a dream, at any moment now, I would wake up. It is not possible to pass through different landscapes like that, in the blink of an eye. And yet here I am, the sounds of nature replaced, by the roaring of engines and the hustle and bustle of city life.
The above, is my entry for the latest 5 Minute Freewrite, with busy street as the prompt. I took a few moments to sit with it and then I just let the words come.
With everything that is going on in the world around us at the moment, I think it is not surprising how my story took on such a twist. As though anything could happen. Because right now, I feel like it could. So much is being revealed right now, we are seeing the world that humans created, for what it really is.
People living in completely different realities and yet we need to find our way to one another, so that we can get through this and be ready to face whatever is coming our way. From the wild, to the farms, to the cities. It is time for us all to come together.
