Monday, May 11, 2009

Fell Asleep While Writing Pt. 1

Today has been weird.  My emotions have been running unusually high.  I have felt everything from really happy to very melancholy, all within the last 18 hours or so.  

Change makes me sad.  I know it can be a good thing, and often a necessary thing.  Still, though, it makes me feel a little nostalgic and more than a little sad.  

While staying at my parent's house this weekend, I took a few trips into the lovely village of Sunbury.  It's weird how when you roll through the town you grew up in, you get the strangest feeling.  It's like a sense of ownership, almost.  Or, maybe it is a sense of belonging.  Either way, seeing freshly painted lanes on the road didn't settle well with me.  Neither did the unnecessary traffic lights and the Tim Horton's.  I felt as if I should have been a part of the decision making process.  Do we need a coffee chain in our little town?  NO!  Take your lights and businesses and pavement elsewhere!  Please leave my town out of this!  

Of course, they didn't ask me, and I didn't get to actually shout those things to whatever planning committee decided all these "improvements" were going to take place.  And now, little Sunbury, is not so little anymore.  I almost don't even feel right calling it a small town.  Maybe it isn't anymore.  It's looking more and more like a suburb every day.  Ugh, the humanity (said with overly dramatic tone, dragging out the 'a' for 3 seconds or so).

What is it that makes me hate the transformation of our little dot on the map?

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THEN I FELL ASLEEP.  

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