Tuesday, 11/17/09 1:30am

Today was the Leonides meteor shower. Few of my friends and i went to experience this shower at turtle rock and it was quite my first time experience.

Throughout the whole time, i missed seeing two in the beginning. However, it felt almost meant to be that because i missed those first two shooting stars, the very first one i’ve seen in my life was one of the brightest shooting stars we saw all night. When we were leaving, we took the wrong way out and when we realized and turned around, we saw the biggest, brightest shooting star. We joked and said “wow, guys. we didnt see shooting stars tonight, we saw fireballs!” I still cannot believe that sometimes, things really do happen for a reason. If we didnt get lost trying to get out, we wouldnt have witnessed that epic moment.

During the wait, i was just thinking about what i wanted to wish for. There were several wishes. Call me greedy. But every time i saw a star, i just made  the same wish.

I analyzed a little bit about the people who went to watch this meteor shower. It made me question a little about what people were waiting for. laying on the dirt ground for these stars that weren’t even guaranteed to shower the earth. Is it this sense of hope that we want for ourselves when we make a wish upon a falling star?

The experience was phenomenal. The anticipation of just waiting there with a stiff, sore neck was nothing. It was a little bit funny to me because everyone, including myself… was laying there for something along the lines of… getting a sense of hope.