there are actually only very few places on this planet from where you can appreciate the entire vastness of the sky. there are lots of places where you can see patches, some clouds, some nice little twinkling stars, some heavy thunderstorms approaching – but you're missing the big picture.
when you're at one of these very special places, you know. you can see everything from there. and when it's late at night and when the sky is clear and when the moon is out and when everything, every last little precondition is just right – then you can see stars and stars and stars and no end.
you already know some of these stars. you'd find some of them on any night time sky. you'd just look up, point somewhere and there they'd be. there are others that you won't ever see because the few traces of clouds always obscure them from your view whenever you look up. or maybe, their light is just too feeble to catch your eye and you just overlook their existence.
but whenever you look, whenever you take the time to actually stop and look at the sheer beauty and magnitude and grandeur of it all, you realize that there are some that you haven't seen before. perhaps it's chance, perhaps luck but there they are, nice and inconspicuous. they've been there all the time but you didn't notice.
and sometimes you only wish there was such a new star coming because there's been a huge cloud pushing itself in front of the one star you thought you liked best. your lucky star.

i just had to write that down before losing it again. just a little similarity i noticed on my way back.
warm hands.
cold face.
good.
charon

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