My Moments

While having a cup of coffee in a shopping mall, trying to relax myself and reviewing what has been happening lately, I heard an old song playing on the air. Strangely, everything changed back to when I was listening to it for the first time...

It was a summer afternoon, everyone was worn out and napping because of the hot days, but I was not. I jumped on my new bike and rode to the riverside to enjoy cool winds and the rare solitude. It was my time!

There were many oak trees along the river, so it was a perfect place to hide away from the burning sun. I put my bike away and sat down under one of the big trees. They were all my guards. The water in the river was not very clear, hence no one knows how deep it really is. And some people tried to throw rocks into it to test the depth, but all the stones were gone with a modest noise, so they told us it must be very deep, and we shouldn't try to play with the water in case we fall in and can't come back again.

I was gazing into the still water; occasionally it will smile at me since I saw its wrinkles-- Probably the pleasant wind makes me smile just as it does to the river in such a sweaty weather. Birds are chirping, gossiping what they have seen since this morning, and where to get delicious food. A small fish swum by and blew a bubble; I guess he said hi to me in Fi(nni)sh.

"Moi!" There comes my Finnish friend.