A new found appreciation.

I re-did my nature experiment.

Just because I felt like it. I guess it wasn't even that I re-did it, I didn't take a notebook with me, or worry about being graded, or about presenting my findings in a creative way. I just felt like going out into nature a few days ago when I was bored. If you know me at all, I don't EVER just "feel like going out into nature". Yeah, I have no idea what got into me...but I went.

I was on my way back from getting my wrist X-rayed, so naturally, I was not in the best of moods. Driving back from Leesport, my GPS took me a way I had never gone before, which helped me come across one of the biggest, most BEAUTIFUL lakes I have ever seen in my life. I don't know what the lake is called, or even what town it is in; somewhere between Leesport and Kutztown is all I know. Spontaneously, I decided to pull over. The mere beauty of this place I was driving through pulled me in; something inside of me insisted I explore. I parked my car, and then simply sat on the edge of the water, literally for hours. I had nothing else to do that day, no homework, or meetings to be at; nothing to worry about...for once. As I sat, I looked around me, and I think for the first time in my life, REALLY appreciated nature, and what this earth has to offer us. For the first time, I wasn't sitting there thinking about what I had to do later, or if there were bugs crawling near me...I was just content. And that...was an amazing feeling.