Erin Sullivan -- The Feeling of Immortality

     I stood there, examining the tranquility of nature itself.
     I then closed my eyes. Many questions where flying through my head…
     “What is my purpose?”
     “Why am I here?”
     “What is still to come?” But then I realized it didn’t matter. What comes will come, so why worry.
     I was happy, just being there, looking up at the light blue, crisp autumn sky. Inhaling the fresh air of fall. As I stood there I came to the point where I didn’t want it to end. When I’m in a place close to nature, I feel almost as if I’m not really there, as if it’s a dream of immortality.
     There I can think about the good things in my life. It also helps me understand why the things that did happen, happened. It reminds you how “everything happens for a reason…”
     The reasons why I feel this way around nature are pretty definite. I love the ways the roots of the earth form over and under another. How the decaying leaves of reds, yellows and orange weave a blanket over the soft, soft beds of the earth. Or the ways the trees form a beautiful sky of crisp autumn leaves of light, (whenever you looked up). That’s where I want to be, out, out in nature, with my feeling of immortality.