Sometimes I like to take my glasses off just so I
can see something no one else can.
On
the bus, strangers are not the people I’ve never met before—they’re aliens.
Their dark winter hats morph into alien armor as they shove their way through
the aisle to get a seat in the back. Their backpacks become shields strapped to
their backs, their heavy coats become layers and layers of solid armor, and an
old man’s cane becomes a sword for battle.
My
room is a child’s wonderland. My lamp blurs into a glowing candy cane, pictures
of my family’s smiling faces turn into photos of hulking dinosaurs.
At
work, the heaps of papers piled in my office become the snowy mountains of
something like a movie—the mountains nouns and commas and quotation marks trek
the terrain fearlessly, unafraid of leaving behind clear footprints making up
sentences making up paragraphs making up stories. My basic chair transforms
into the throne of a queen and the precarious stack of the cafeteria’s
Styrofoam coffee cups is a marble statue, painstakingly crafted by the hands of
an old sculptor in the oldest parts of France.
Outside
my window, the patches of sun speckling trees are fairies coming out to say
hello to me, migrating along the leaves as the sun makes its daily journey
across the sky and dips into a sunset, a drop of paint spilling into a crystal
clear puddle and streaking stains across a dying day.
Sometimes,
I like to keep my glasses on to know what other people are seeing. But other
times, I like to take them to see what other people are not.
Author's Note: Something I wrote with an actual pen and actual paper because I haven't written a single thing in literally forever. So here we go! I like writing with paper and pen because you get a lot of chances to change and switch and edit things. So I made like 4 copies of this thing and it's only like 5 paragraphs or something. I don't know. It took a while but it's better now. Hope you like it! : )
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