summer nights

It's a typically hot, humid summer night. Quiet and peaceful except for the occassional fireworks going off, which are somehow relaxing - a reminder of the other people celebrating around us maybe.

This is the type of night that should be spent with a few friends, a couple bottles of liquor, maybe some other substances of choice if that's your thing. Hanging out in a park after hours. Sharing those random thoughts of nothing and dreams and whatever floats into your head as freely as you share the booze. Experiencing the beauty of being another human in the vast universe.

I love summer nights. I love the breif moment when the sun seems to stretch into eternity and it feels like tomorrow will never come, and that tomorrow never needs to come. For that moment I feel invincible.

That moment used to stretch into long, late nights with friends. Something happened. The feeling of invincibility is still mine for a few minutes on those nights. Connecting to other people - in the way that only shared summer nights can connect you - has gone as those friends have gotten older, gotten hitched, started careers, bought houses and condos, had kids...

I want need friends that I can experience summer nights with. I want to revel in my waning youth and be a little reckless and embrace life and nature and humanity under a few twinkling stars.

Pass the bottle...