Jaspalin’s Fast Read Diner

     Imagine a place where you always felt happy, a place where you could relax and not worry. At my old school I had a little walkway, no one usually came there so I had the place to my self. I felt as if the world couldn’t touch me on that path. I felt as if I had no problems at all, I was miles away from the stress of the world. I loved walking down that small concrete path, the sugary scent of the row of exotic flowers to my left that sent me to a completely different world, and  when I heard the screams of delight from the preschoolers having a lot of fun to my right, I felt extremely light, as if gravity had given up on me!

     No matter how many times I would walk down that forsaken path, I always felt good. I never felt as if the path was boring, it was my quiet time, where I became one withe the world. Where I could think about how life is going for me, how to solve personal problems, it was a home away from home. I remember a month before the end of the school year last year, my mom and I where chatting a little about stuff. When she told me we were going to a different school.

     As soon as she said that my blood turned to ice. I was going to scream at her, but instead I left and later screamed to the heavens with a scream that could make a wolf whimperlike a puppy. I felt furious at first, but soon my anger had given up on me and left, leaving me shattered emotionally and depressed. My friends, my favorite school, my pathway all gone. That pathway was like a home away from home to me, now leaving it I felt I have left something important behind, something I desperately need to get back. To this day I miss that walkway I miss the flowers, the preschoolers, the feeling I had when walking down that path. Now when I think of school, I think about that small pathway, forgotten by the world. I love that pathway even more now because I now understand that the path is a symbol of loneliness, away from its home only to be joined in with a foreign place and that is exactly how I feel.

~ by Jaspal'in! on October 2, 2008.