Eric Won

MP2 (week 9 entry)

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The first thing I see when I open my eyes from sleep has differed over this past month.
Weirdly, it has been getting pitch dark by four or five o’clock. With my usual routine of taking a
walk to local point from alder hall, I enjoy and absorb the beautiful sunlight that’s being
produced by the sun early mornings at the UW. Sunny days have become one of my favorite
weathers without a doubt. Looking up and peering at the lit sky, I always get flashes of great
memories made with friends and family from past summers. Recently, that sun has been setting
too soon. My bodily routine of early outdoor activities has been diminished. My body has now
become accustomed to the already dark day. Now my admiration of the weather has been
mellow rainy days. With the constant early darkness and rain, I at first was not appreciative of
it. However, with adaptation came appreciation. I started to notice aspects of this weather I
have not given a second consideration to take a glance. I see these musical drops of rain
dropping ever so smoothly with speed and fluidity that ends with a small splash in the ground,
and once I noticed that, I realized why “Seattleians” walk around without umbrellas. I now
understood why. The beauty of nature in such an urban setting was an almost perfect mix of
the two. One night in particular, I decided to give gas works parks a visit with friends. It was
sprinkling and it was late. I sat on the concrete steps by the top rail with the view of the skyline
of Seattle. I see these vibrant flashes of beautiful gold-yellow lights with the lights shone from
traffic lights afar in between these tall buildings. As the sprinkling weather became more and
more intense, I saw the waves being hit by the drops from rain forming a ripple in almost every
spot I can see in the waters. As my hair is becoming soaked, a couple streams of rain started to
form from the top of my head down my face. As the rain went over my eyes and falling off my
eyelashes, I see a very quick glimpse of a blurred magnified skyline of Seattle. The lights shining
in beams in all directions giving off a sense of the same sort of shine you’d see looking at a
sunlight with the subtraction of pain. That’s when I appreciated the weather of rain. Though the
sun has been away for a bit, I found a solution that can in a way replicate that shine I
appreciated when the sun used to be up all day. Now, even if the sun were to come back up, I
would still be able to appreciate the rain, and to not forget, the shine of the moonlight on the
waters is a similar but completely different vibe. I now can see a way of making memories even
in the rainy dark. I now see that there is always another way.