I LOVE to run... Not only is it great exercise, but it's time that I get to myself. Even if just for a half hour it's my time away from school, work and friends. There is nothing like the thrill of the wind against my face and the earth under my feet. Usually I run to the beat of the tunes jamming through my Ipod, but on this particular day I decided to ditch the Ipod and let the sounds around me be the soundtrack to my jog.
The sounds surrounding me were unusually loud. Each one amplified without my music drowning it out. A pair of charcoal black birds chirped excitedly above my head chasing each other like two little kids playing tag.
My feet hitting the ground seemed to echo through my body. The dirt gave into the pounding of my feet. Every so often a leaf would crunch or a twig would snap under my weight.
Out of the corner of my eye I caught a lizard laying out basking in the sunlight that poured down from the sky. I found myself a becoming slightly jealous that this little creature had nothing better to do than lay out and tan.
Because it was such a gorgeous day, I had to share the trail with other joggers. I noticed that most of them were sucked into the tunes flowing through the headphones of their own Ipods. I almost felt bad that they were missing out on nature's own music that was far more harmonious than anything they could have been listening to.
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