Prompt: Describe a place or environment where you are perfectly content. What do you do or experience there, and why is it meaningful to you?
“The Land Down Under”
The places I go where I am most content are not the ideal locations for being peaceful, but I somehow find them tranquil and intriguing in their own unique ways. The abandoned, long forgotten remains of buildings, structures, tunnels, and anything with a rich history of its past enthralls me, bringing out my adventurous personality, which makes up who I am. Each and every place I visit has its own personal story of what had occurred there. Looking around, I try to piece together what had happened; searching through the debris and rubble that once use to be a place of work or even someone's home. I always ask myself “Why did this place end up the way it did?” but then again, do I really want to know?
My favorite place to go is not where most people would look. That is because it is underground. Not in a cave or some hole in the earth but in a long forgotten man made structure known as a Titan I Missile Silo. These structures are truly a man made marvel reaching depths of more than two hundred feet, with vast rooms of engineering masterpieces. However, time, erosion, and people have left their mark on the underground city. Graffiti covers the walls of it’s ominous passageways and flooding is apparent in its deeper levels; surprisingly, all of this adds to the incredible atmosphere that the location emits.
Whenever I go to this place, it feels like it is the first time all over again. All of my senses are at full capacity; the cool, damp smell of the walkways, the touch of the rugged, rusty walls, the sight of the fading, yet colorful, rooms, and the sound of silence. Its almost too much to comprehend. I walk through every room or corridor with the same awestruck look each time, analyzing my surroundings and navigating through the remains of what use to be something great.
This is where I am perfectly content. This is where I feel like who I am. Things are constantly changing, however. New people, adventures,and experiences will find their way into our lives leaving even our greatest memories in the past. All we can do is move on, accept the change, and look for the next great thing in our lives. You never know what you will find in the most unlikely of places.
-- Max
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