Write Club Prompt #28
Sprint Time
Writing is kind of the worst way to spend a gorgeous day. It’s in the 40s which I would have considered freezing only a few months ago. Now it feels like spring is around the corner and I want to just get out and enjoy it. I will. I really will. I’m meeting some friends later and I can walk all the way there. It’s going to feel glorious being out in the sun and not shivering. Only yesterday it was in the teens. Single digits over night. The kind of cold that makes me check the price of flights south. Not to Florida but all the way to the Caribbean or Panama. Somewhere I wouldn’t just feel warm but hot. Actually hot. So hot that I have to sit back and just deal with it. I want to fan myself slowly with a Spanish language newspaper that I can’t read yet. I want to stare from behind sunglasses at bikini clad women on the beach or at the hotel pool. I want to play a round of golf and drink red Gatorade but never have to pee.
Later this week it will be in the fifties. Maybe I’ll take the bike out and ride a few miles before it gets dark. The sun is staying up later these days. Soon it will still be light after work and I can walk or bike again. I’ll ride to get ice cream or to a cafe. I’ll hope to make eye contact with a cute girl start to talk and spend our summer together.
The future is out there waiting for me and I can’t wait to see what I can make of it. Back here today. I just want to get up appreciate life a little more. Even when I feel heartbroken a bright warm day is there waiting to greet me. If only I can get through it.
Still two minutes left on the timer. I need to keep writing but I feel that I’ve said all that needs to be said in this post. Time races on. Funny I talked myself into wanting to get up and stop procrastinating. I really want to get out there and enjoy today.
One minute left. Maybe I should run again. Train for a 5k. There is a cool one coming up. Right on the tarmac at JFK airport. I could run where planes take off and imagine where I will go one day when I make the decision to travel again.
Five seconds. See you soon.