It’s Beautiful!

“You have to wake me up!!”

“But it’s at 3am! There’s no point waking you up!”

“But I want to see it!! You have to wake me up okay?!”

I was excited. I had never seen a lunar (or was it solar? hmm…) eclipse before. I was determined not to miss out on the rare event, and I was so nervous that I would miss it that I couldn’t fall asleep. Time seemed to pass by slower than ever as I lied in bed, but soon enough I was asleep.

“Wake up! I can see it! Let’s go! Didn’t you say you wanted to see it?”

The sudden loud voice of my dad broke through the silence and I woke up slightly confused. I had no idea what he was talking about and all I wanted to do was go back to sleep. He pulled me out of bed and because I was groggy, I forgot to put on my glasses. I didn’t realize I had forgotten my glasses until we were downstairs and out the door, but right when I stepped outside, I also realized I didn’t need my glasses. It was beautiful. It was a giant, bright orange blob of light in the sky. The slightly blurred edges and extended beams of light made it all the more beautiful, and I was glad I had left my glasses behind. The fuzziness added to it’s wonder; to witness something that awesome made me tingle with happiness.

“What are you looking at? It’s over here.”

Confused, I turned around and realized that my dad was pointing towards the opposite of where I had been looking, and that the actual eclipse was nothing like I thought it was. Without my glasses, I could only see a dim reddish spot in the sky. I pretended to be in awe while sneakily looking back towards what I was originally staring at: a lamp post.