It is late January in a college town. Spring semester has started, classes have been in session for two weeks, and students still have not been able to adjust from waking up at whenever-I-want PM to its-too-early-kill-me AM. Worst of all, homework is piling up and in comparison to that oh so glorious winter break, life is beginning to look extremely stressful. Then something very magical happens.
It snows. A lot.
Classes are cancelled and everyone is free to enjoy their lives in the manner which pleases them most. Many are drawn to the comfort of warm blankets and books while others yearn to explore the new world laid out before them. Most importantly, and quite surprisingly, this new fabric of nature brings people together. It is extremely inspiring to see how hard people will work to be trapped in one place together. I must have walked over four miles during this snow break just traveling from one group of friends to another so that we could all enjoy a life of simplicity together. Days were spent in alternating states of cooking together, reading together, exploring together, movie-watching together, traveling together, hookah-smoking together, dancing together and making 90 egg rolls together. Yep...90 steaming home-made egg rolls. Though the world's appearance changed and was made more beautiful and mystical than I had seen it in a very long time, the true beauty I found over the past three days was the non-visual beauty of spending every moment of every day with the people I loved to be with most.
