Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Day Zero

I woke up today and noticed that the window next to my bed was open. I usually like to sleep with some background noise as long as the noise isn't sporadic or too constant. Sporadic like the random high pitches of your family karaoke-ing downstairs, constant like the precise monotonous ticking of the second hand of your clock in  a quiet room. The calm sound of the outdoors, even if it's an urban outdoors is soothing to me. I like the sound of cars passing by, the morning birds that start chirping around 5 am, the occasional stray dog that wanders the street with its collar still jingling along with it wherever it goes.

I realized that these are the subtle things I'll probably miss when I'm out there travelling. I suspect I wont get that feeling of serenity and peace when I wake up, something that I usually don't pay attention to-

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