My Favorite Place

Nicolette Van Duysen

September 20, 2014

English 1100

Paper on my Favorite Place

            The luminescent sun shines all different colors over the horizon; pink, orange, yellow, I watched all of them change in complete serene relaxation. Just to embrace the quiet nature of outdoors while completely clearing your mind for hours, it is safe to say that this is by far my favorite spot. I remember the day I first discovered the spot.   The spot almost seemed surreal but I loved it and wanted to go all of the time. Another remarkable thing about this place is, it is peaceful and quiet so you could try to contain and trap your own thoughts take a deep breath and realize everything that you have been stressing over for the past week is not that bad. If a pin dropped it would have got your attention to the point where you would look over your shoulder to see where it have fallen; dead silence. That left nothing but our thoughts and voices, that in those moments we could just talk about anything for hours not realizing the time before I would look at my phone and see eleven angry missed calls from my mom. In addition, if you really wanted to you could bring headphones and have nothing but the site in front of you and your music to calm you down, something I still need to do. You would think that the smoke from the factory has some effect on the smell around the place or the dumpster not far behind, but you can only smell the pine and grass of nature. When I felt a glimpse of sadness that in the winter I would miss this spot, he would tell me that that is when it is the very best. The winter snow glistens over the area and amongst the trees making the view the most breathing taking of all, making me eager to come back to the winter snow and see this site. Especially seeing deer prance their footprints in the snow, since they like to visit the spot quiet often as well. The other times I have been at the spot is with Jomar, and I probably would not go without him. It is only special when we are both there to enjoy it, plus it would be kind of creepy if I just randomly showed up in his backyard to walk to the spot from time to time. It will always be special to me, and I cannot wait to go back.

I was at my best friend Omar’s house and he claimed that he wanted to show me his special spot where he goes to think all of the time. Eagerly I followed and walked down the hill behind his house. There is a rigid concrete step that we sat on, but the view made it all worth it. There was an overwhelming big circle of land of just nature, where you could see the forest both to the left and your right, and a towering factory building puffing out smoke at the top. All together the view was breathtaking with the sun setting all different colors. The thing I love most about the place is it will always be beautiful to me no matter what time of the day you go. As we started going more and more I considered it to be my spot too. I noticed at night that the stars would glisten over the sky at the spot where you could just look up and see what seemed to be thousands of them. One time, I even saw a shooting star.