I wonder why my brain is so easily startled awake sometimes. It’s as if it’s privy to some information that something big is happening that i’ve got to see but that detail is left out in the waking and rushing to check my surroundings. My guard is never down.
When those first drops hit your windshield as youre driving you always follow them more intently than the road for a moment. It looks as though by somw geat luck you are witnessing a universe forming. Each droplet a small galaxy being Smashed and exploded into existence. And you remember your junior high astronomy books and look for patterns like a big dipper would be, an astrological roadmap it’d be. But instead the universe increases at an alarming rate, quickly covering what little space it had left, and youre forced to toggle the wipers on in the car for a moment and start it all anew.