Saturday, August 18, 2007

So Real It's Like Virtual Reality

FIRST OF ALL, WELCOME TO INTERACTIVE READING. IF YOU WANT THE FULL EXPERIENCE, YOU NEED TO OPEN THE LINK BELOW IN ANOTHER TAB OR WINDOW, WHICH WILL TAKE YOU TO THE SONG, WHICH WILL TAKE YOU TO MY LIFE. CLICK PLAY AND COME BACK TO READ THIS POST ONCE THE SONG IS PLAYING.

Moanin' by Boozoo Bajou featuring Wayne Martin

Virtual reality is not hard to create.
Can you think of one simple moment when you are alone and at your best...or your happiest? When everything is perfect? No one is there to see it. No one is there to share it. No one is there. Just you and a song. You and the sun and a window. And you have one of those moments when you think, "this is it. There needn't be more."
And if people could share that moment in some way, they would understand who you were. Because it's all so simple. Right then.
And you decide to write it down cause it'll only make you happier and that way the people you love might be able to slip into you for a moment.
Virtual reality.

And the sun is hitting you face and beads of sweat are forming on your nose. You're sitting on a folding wooden chair just inside the open window and have one foot up on the step out to the balcony in a small Paris apartment. There is basil and mint growing in a rectangular pot hung outside on the railing and a cup of brown-sugar-sweetened coffee in your right hand. Comfortable headphones emit this smoothest sound that could not better suit the moment as an occasional breeze blows through. And there in the peace of it all, in the warmth, between bites of buttered croissant and sips of coffee you catch your sun-touched reflection in the open window pane and can't help but love the life you live.

There needn't be more.

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