On my LONG drive home today, with the sun BLINDING me, and traffic BARELY moving along, I started drifting off and little things started to cross my mind. For one, GPS took me on a "scenic route" on one of those long, awful drives and took it took me to Nebraska Ave. I mean, I knew there was such an avenue because people tell me when I let them know where I'm from but it's not the best street you want to know (think 24th St in Omaha, if you're from there and know what I mean). So anyway, I finally get there, right at the light on Nebraska Ave, and shit starts to FALL APART! My car started doing this weird "bucking" thing, my GPS map FROZE, Pandora wouldn't let me change stations, like, EVERYTHING just went to SHIT as SOON as I rolled up to this light on Nebraska Ave. I thought to myself "and THIS is the metaphor for my life if I EVER thought moving back to NE would be a GOOD IDEA!" I'm not saying it's all peaches here in the Sunshine State, but maybe I'd CRASH AND BURN just a tad faster if I returned to a place I was surely sinking myself in. I'm getting off track, I was talking about being stuck in traffic, or something. I'm driving over the bridge (because Clearwater is a bridge away from EVERYWHERE) and as the sun disappears for a second, I can finally take in the view and be a appreciative; I'm driving over a bridge where there's water on both sides and the sun is gleaning off of it and it looks like something from a painting. There's also palm trees lining the bridge and it feels so good outside that I even have the windows cracked a little. I'm totally soaking it all in that this is my new scenery because I live in CLEARWATER, FLORIDA and, even though I've had to work on reestablishing myself in this foreign land, I'm grateful for the views and the "everything" that's been a part of it. It's still FUCK THAT TRAFFIC, THOUGH (it's an hour drive to get home).
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February 2020
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