Fridays after Five

Just last friday I had my first experience of "Friday's after Five" here in good ol' charlottesville. Now you may be asking yourself right now what exactly is"Friday's after Five" , you may not be also, you may be wondering how on earth did I stumble into this guy's blog? Either way you're here now so I'm just going to tell you. "Friday's after Five" is a thing they do here in charlottesville where a band puts on a concert at the downtown amphitheater, and people just sort of walk around and drink and eat and just enjoy the vibe of everything.

I must say that it was a pretty cool experience for me. Just being in that atmosphere with all of these very different people watching a jazz band up on stage was pretty cool. And really the coolest thing about the whole evening was the fact that I got to sit back and partake in one of my favorite past times, which is people watching. And let me just tell you like everywhere else there are some pretty crazy people that live here in charlottesville. But this entry is not to talk about all of those people, it's just about one in particular.

The first person that I'm going to talk about is a girl that I saw there. She really was just an ordinary girl like any other girl you might see these days. She was in her early 20's I'd say, definitely in college are on her way out. I think she probably didn't quite fit in high school through no fault of her own, just really didn't have to much in common with anybody there. But in college she has found the people that she was truly meant to be around. That sort of laid back bohemian group of people that just love to hang out in a field and hackie sack, or love talking about all different types of independent and foreign films. That love these little bitty coffee shops and cd stores that nobody has really ever heard about. I'm not at all saying any of this like it is a bad thing, because I seriously do fit into a lot of those categories that I just mentioned.

Now while I was watching this girl I found out one thing about myself, and that was the fact that never in my life did I want to be an inanimate object as much as I did when I saw her. She went up to a clearing on a hill and picked up a hula hoop, and she began hula hooping, and after just a few minutes of watching her I became completely mesmerized by her. I mean the way she was spinning this hula hoop up and down her body and flipping it around her hands and back down her body, I promise you it was like poetry in motion. I could almost swear that I was having this out of body experience. And it was quite wonderful. And after about five minutes or so she finally messed up and came down off the hill and hooked back up with the rest of her friends. But the thing is I think that is way I am in love with life so much that it sometimes hurts. Because I can see the beauty in all of these great things. Things that most people might just look at as an everyday occurrence, but to me it's not like that. Sometimes I feel like there is so much beauty in this world that we are all missing and it makes me sad. Sometimes it makes me sad because i feel like I need to find away to translate some of the beauty that I see to everyone else who might not see it. Sounds crazy I know, but really sanity doesn't sound this great, does it?