The Beauty of Escaping Reality
“Life goes on, it gets so heavy; the wheel breaks the butterfly, every tear a waterfall. In the night, the stormy night, she'll close her eyes. In the night, the stormy night, away she'd fly and dream of paradise…” -Paradise, Coldplay I had one of the best summers of my life this year. Now, I’m in college, so you might think that I had some awesome internship in DC. Or that I did a mission trip in Central America. Or went backpacking across Europe. Or went to Disney World. But no. I did none of these things. I did things for the good of my own mental health. I did things that I wanted to do. I did things that made me happy. This summer, I lived. Just lived. Less than two weeks after my classes ended, my two best friends, Lorene and Katherine, and I went to Virginia Beach for the weekend; something we had been talking about doing since we were sophomores in high school. We left bright and early Friday morning, and lounged around on the sand for 2 days straight. We