Sometimes we need to get away from it all

Everyone has their own special place. To unwind. To straighten things out. To clear their thoughts. Be it in their own room, listening to emotional songs, everyone does that once in a while. That's why we need Coldplay. Some choose to take things out in a bar. Nothing like a shot of whiskey to down their sorrow. (disclaimer: not applicable to Muslims everywhere). Everyone has that moment of need, to be in all their own world.

Sometimes, being alone only makes it worse. They need the comfort from others. Family is the first thing that comes to mind. but unfortunately for some, being in close proximity with each other other does not necessarily means they are close emotionally. For that reason people have friends. Everyone needs friends. They are the shining stars that help us get through the night.

Once in a while they will think, enough! They need to get away from it all. They go vacations. For a few days, they can escape the routine of their tiring life. For a few days, they remember the feelings that for so long have eluded them. What it feels to be alive. Just for a few days, and they're back into reality.

Everyone has a favourite place to go. A regular mamak stall where old friends from school often meet up to catch up with each other. Reminiscing the nostalgia of happier days. They go to parties, they get wasted. Because it gives them a sense of freedom. People do drugs because the it takes them to a high place. A beautiful place where no one else can go. Where everything that is not, is there. A place of butterflies and hurricanes. (Disclaimer: don't do drugs). Everyone needs this feelings, a feeling that will suddenly make a smile curl on their lips. A fond kindling of memories that is shared only with those people at table in the mamak stall. The feeling of freedom that comes with substance abuse, that can make people think they can fly in their own world. They are similiar in the sense it gives them the feeling that they belong in a special place made only for them. Where no one else can enter.

I, too have a special place to go. It has butterflies in it too. Real ones. I don't go to this place by myself. I have my own crew of pirates to accompany me to my Never-neverland. Spontainity is what makes things wonderful. Planning, always sucks the fun out of it. No point planning with a bunch of pirates, as it will end up in total chaos anyway. (cue : janji melayu).

This place, a place of absolute serenity, of unparalleled beauty. Only the songs of the crickets accompany you. Soothe your ears with the gentle sounds that the leaves made when the wind touch them. A rushing sound of water greets you upon arrival. The mist that surrounds the rocks gives the place a mythical feel. Sometimes, the dry leaves will fall from above, and it feels like autumn.

Every trip holds a different story, a different memory, that makes it worthwile to go all over again. Everytime I go to this place, I always sing a song in my head, this song.....

If I lay here

If I just lay here

Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Forget what we're told

Before we get too old

Show me a garden that's bursting into life

Can you take me to your special place?