You know that moment in the winter when its so cold, it makes your vision razor sharp? The cold creates a crisp clarity and a stunning focus. What other times is our sight so piercingly effected?
Walking down the lonely hallway after completing my shift brought on such clarity of my position, that tears sprang up instantaneously. I am thousands of miles away from home. Thousands.
I clocked out and headed back to my apartment, and started walking down the hallway I have been traversing through for three months. Its just an innocuous hallway of half yellow half white walls, with posters and signs in Chinese that I've seen over and over, but suddenly looking down that long corridor made me incredibly aware of exactly where I am.
I am in China, working in a 5 star hotel experiencing my first internship ever, and I am thousands of miles from home.
That kind of icy clarity can simply take one's breath away.
I'll wipe my winter eyes, and hope for a hazy summer day tomorrow...
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