The Forest

I was jogging last night, and I decided to take a different route than usual. When I jog I don't like to run on the street, I prefer to take trails, they are more interesting and more of a chalenge because of terain. Fortunatly there is the Credit Valley Conservation program near my house so I have a lot of trails to use. This time however I decided to go off the trails, just bushwack. MAn was I rewarded . The smell of the trees, the sound of the river, the outstanding hues of orange, red, pink, and purple from the setting sun, it was one of the most beautiful sights I have ever seen. I actualy stopped running and sat on a log and waited for the sun to go down. Of course that ment I had to run back in the dark, but the point was I saw something that I will never forget as long as I live.

I just wished that others could have been there to enjoy the moment. Everybody is always striving to acheive happiness, but they do it in the wrong way. They try to gain as much money as posible, engage in meaningless casual sex, do all sorts of activities, and buy all sorts of gadgets, when in the end the only things that are true happiness are the simple things. For me, for one brief moment joy was running through the forest at sunset, and I wouldn't trade that moment for anything in the world.