"Me" Time

There was a time in life when I used to go deer hunting. My family had a lease out in the hill country, and let me just tell you the sky was the best part. We had many deer leases over the years and the sky was always beautiful. There was one thing about the night sky in Llano, TX. It was different then all the others, it made you think. I always seemed to get left in my deer blind a lot later just because I was further out then the rest, so it took longer to get to me when it was time to come in. It didn't bother me by any means, because I could just look up and see something so pretty that I could of probably laid out there all night. Even when I would finally get back to camp I would get my sleeping bag and go lay in the bed of the truck just so I could keep looking up. Night time has always been an escape for me and when my mind just runs in circles, but it was different with this night sky view. I was still going a million different ways, but it all seemed to make sense and just help me through a lot about life. I have never been one to talk about myself so keeping things in was what I did best so it just felt nice to have my time alone. Now there were times when I would have friends laying there beside me and when we would stare up, deep conversations always seemed to come up but for a good reason. It seemed to clear a lot of my friend's heads and they realized why I enjoyed doing that every now and then. I have always still done it but at home. It's defiantly not the same for the mare fact that the sky is lit up more by city lights rather then just the moon light, but it still is something I do to clear my mind. You, best bet if I had the chance to go back to the hill country and have just a few minutes by myself to think and just have that "me" time, I most defiantly would! I really enjoyed astronomy when I was younger and when that lesson came in my science classes I tended to do much better in that category and it kept me interested. We had this Star Dome that we would go into and it was a lit up version of the stars and consolations, so it was defiantly a plus for me to name the different things when I did have my "me" time. I also felt pretty cool around my friends, just because I could kind of teach them about the sky. Of course they made fun of me and called me a nerd, but it was a side of me I enjoyed.