So here I am once again, plopping down in my chair, turning on my laptop and as every other day after school, just waste my time. One can say my life is quite, boring. To be honest, I don’t even care. As long as I am having my things around me, I am more then happy. Never have been much of a social person, never had FaceBook, Twitter or some of those other fancy social media things. No, I waste my life by playing video games or building Lego sets. How old I am? Twenty-one.
My point is, I am not social and still have a very, very childish mind. And I love it that way to be honest, it makes me unique. Making me proud of what I am, of who I am.
Should I complain about my life? If you can count my brother who is annoying as one can get... For the rest not that much. Maybe my parents divorcing, but that is really about it.
So here I sit, surfing the endless reaches of the internet, talking to a couple people on Skype, pretty much the only way you can reach me. And we share a good laugh with each other, sure it is nice, but something felt, out of place. Maybe the real interaction?
Then again, the people I speak to live in the States. Thousands of kilometers away from my wonderful yet shitty living place in the Netherlands. Don’t get me wrong, the small town on the coast where I live is a small paradise to be, but it is just, so far away. Or maybe I am just complaining to much about what I do not have and not happy enough about what I have. After all, I stayed in my elderly house after my mother moved to her new friend and my brother found a place on his own. I should be happy, happy for everything I do still have, for there are people out there who have it much harder, I shall not lie to that.
After a couple hours the sun began to lower itself thus making way for the moon. As I stood before the window in the living room, looking down to earth from the fourth floor, I had a crazy idea in my mind. Me as a fat couch potato, just got the idea to walk a little around town. I don’t know why I got the idea, nor its suddenness.
Then again, being and a lego collector and a transforms collector and a My Little Pony collector and fan, my mind makes me do odd things from time to time.
And now you are thinking, My Little Pony? That show for girls? Yes, that show for girls yes. Can’t a man have his hobbies? I literally tear up when I see the shows magic flowing of the screen. I am proud to call myself a Brony, I am proud to be different.
But as I walked down the eight stairs of of the apartment building I did finally reach the ground level and began to make my way through the streets, walking passed my former MBO, it is something the Dutch people have, you learn for a profession in those schools. Mine happened to be administrator for a company. But given the times in the economics, getting a job was hard. I was one of the few lucky ones who could get one, sure it was part time for only like twenty hours a week, but i could live off of it.
I looked up from my wandering in thoughts as I saw I was walking passed the infamous N206 highway, a way that literally passes through the town, separating it in two sides. My thoughts wandered off once more into as the light of the moon shone down upon me, I have to admit, it was a nice feeling to feel.
But what I didn't know, was that there was something coming, that would change my life forever. I would go on a roller coaster of emotions.
As I kept walking down the highway, I turned into a dark road leading over to the dunes, I do not know why, especially when there is a illuminated road almost fifty meters away from you. Could blame my mind, but that would make things too easy for me. No, I think it's because I preferred the darkness more.
My eyes spotted something in the dark however, well in the dark, more like in the dark valley of the dunes. I blinked a couple times trying to identify what it was, maybe a fox, or a rabbit. Just common creatures that lived in the dunes.
But the more I looked at the creature, the more I saw it wasn't something I know. Now at this point one could have called me either stupid or brave, but I stepped over the barb wire which was used for ‘protection’, the poles were only to my knee, so it was an easy step.
When I stepped over the wire, I tried to keep myself as quiet as possible, for I didn't want to disturb the creature that was laying there.
I made my way over to the sandy valley as my eyes kept adjusting themselves on the darkness, I wished I had a flashlight or something to at least give me some light. But it was either luck or my prayer got answered, but the clouds which blocked the moon, began to drift away. Thus letting its light shine over the dark valley, slowly crawling up from behind me, shining down on me, before moving over to the creature.
As the light revealed what it was, my heart and mind went into the deepest fight yet. I didn’t know what it was, yet, I knew what it was.
My heart screamed to me it was true what my eyes saw, as my brain said my eyes were lying to me. My eyes themselves however, moved all over the place looking at this so, familiar figure, yet, so unreal figure.
There, in the sandy valley of a natural dune in the coastal town of Katwijk in the Netherlands, laid a little foal, a light blue foal. A very tiny horn and some tiny wings could be made up as its mane and tail were very light azure.
It, it just laid there, sleeping so peacefully like there was nothing going on. Hundreds of earthy creatures went through my mind, even coming up with the craziest of things. But all were a big negative as it suddenly hit me.
My brain fought it off once again as my heart agreed with my eyes, I couldn't believe it, yet it was true.
Before me, in the always quiet town, was something I never thought to be true...
“...Princess Luna...”
