Austin Cleek Writer, Wonderer, Wanderer, and Weirdo
Keep up with me:
  • Home
  • Lens
  • Technology
  • Science
  • Art
  • Music
  • Philosophy

Snow

3/3/2013

1 Comment

 
Picture
Calvin and Hobbes: It's a Magical World 
by Bill Watterson
This morning, my friend Patrick and I were strolling through the neighborhoods around Tech taking in the new snow and trying to walk off the headache leftover from last night.  In one of the lesser neighborhoods of the area, we passed a guy in his mid twenties who had stepped out of his apartment to smoke a cigarette in the cold. I guess what follows says something about me or maybe my state of mind at the time, but from first glance of him I immediately tried to analyze what kind of person he was. I saw his cigarette. I saw his shoes. I saw his basketball shorts. I saw his hoodie, and I'm disgusted to say that my initial impulse was to distrust the kid solely on his appearance. Then I saw him stoop down and begin to make a snowball. As we walked closer, he began to roll it over his deck, cigarette stuck in his mouth and his legs obviously cold in the winter wind. The nearer we got to his house the more apparent his snowman began to be. Shame on me for being judgmental. Boy, do I feel like an ass now.

Don't get me wrong, I don't know the kid at all, and as Patrick and I passed his yard we only exchanged a slight wave, but I can't help in having a little more faith in humanity.  The guy, no matter what was going on in his life, still had enough childlike innocence that he brought himself to step out into the snow on a cold day and build a small snowman over the course of his cigarette.  I feel like the entire world would be a better place if more people took the time to momentarily slip back into childhood. I know I could use it from time to time. My twelve year old self would kick my own ass for judging that guy in the first place because that just wasn't the type of person I used to be. I made a decision as I walked on through the snow to spend more time being conscious of my mental impulses, to think more like a kid, and maybe build a snowman or have a snowball fight later on in the day with my friends. After all, it's a magical world.
1 Comment
secret admirer
3/5/2013 01:41:26 am

I thought the kid was going to start a snowball fight with y'all...very nice story

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    Austin Cleek

    Get inside my head.

    Archives

    December 2014
    August 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    November 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    June 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.