I am One with the "Nature"

This is a sequel of My First Fight...^__^

I think it was this part of my life where I became interested in exploring around, discovering new things and have fun around and be one with the nature. Our  school was a reforested area before and still it is still a forested area even with the few school buildings built in there. I loved it most when it is autumn and all the leaves of the mahogany trees fall down and cover the whole place with its golden leaves. When I first saw it, the very instinct I had in mind was to roll in the pile of leaves and toss them again and again up in the air until I get tired and just lay down and watch the sunshine starting to peek through the previously forest-shaded area.

I could still remember, when I was in Grade 3, the first place I discovered about nature was the river where I spent most of my afternoons/afterschools building an artificial waterfall at the riverbanks using rocks as the dykes and a drinking straw for the fountain effect aside from the waterfall flowing over the mini dyke. I also often dig a small lagoon of water as big as a basin,put white pebbles in it and put small fishes and tadpoles after. So simple and yet so pure. I felt so powerful for I can create those things. Feels like an engineer who designs and build new things with my own hands. And I have a competition here so the design that I make must be a winning piece! I have this gay cousin whom I always play with. My dolls, fashion, hair styles, everything! He was my ultimate playmate. It's because of him why I have great empathy with gay people.(I did not know that time that I would be gay someday too but yeah, I felt different even before). I love to see them and how they make other people laugh. I think they are born natural happy persons that has the ability to emanate and pass happiness virally. 

This time, I explore the nature here in the forests hiking with my friends. (One of them is "?"/ gay or not gay phase). We are going to my bestfriend's house and we are gonna pass through behind or classroom. Before that, I asked them to wait for me, I needed a C.R. break. One of them patiently waited for me outside when suddenly, the moment I walked out of the comfort room a snake appear out of the file of rocks and leaves bringing me and my friend to shrieking noises while we were running as fast as we could to get near our other friends. After the panic mode was over, we were laughing hard about our reaction and how silly we looked like just because of a snake passing by his territory. Reality check: yes, we are just invaders there. It is really owned by the creatures living there not us who suddenly stood up a school there. Perhaps, the creatures were really disturbed because it was not the first time that a student see a snake roaming around. Oftentimes when it is windy, you would just notice a snake falling off a tree. Sometimes in the middle of flag ceremony we would notice a huge snake trying to cross from one tree to another. The whole reforested area was filled up of many creatures as well as plants you have never seen before in the city. One of my favorite thing to do while walking there in the forest was to spot different flowering wild orchids and wished I could own one too at home. You can see up high in the trees the different colors, the wonderful bouquet of orchids and its sweet smell mixing up in the air. The moment was also serenaded by different birds singing their own unique tune, accompanied by the noise of cicadas and crickets in their hiding place. Whenever I was in that circumstance, I felt like a having a beautiful dream or a fairy tale, but hey it really do exist! In that very moment of my life...

From time to time, I was still having an encounter with the snakes/the wild ones. The fear was still there and yet I've learned that it is just a matter of respect to each other. I gave him way, and he also tried to stay out of my way. I learned that snakes wont hurt you as long as they aren't bothered with your presence. They are quite an odd creature for us human beings but still, every creature deserves a place in this Earth. My gay cousin was condemned by the others, but I cared for him and respected him as a part of the nature. We are all intertwined in a way that other people tried not to understand. Most of them shut their eyes to the truth that gays exist. Others would try to extinguish us for we are odd, for we see things differently than they do. Just like what I have said, it just takes a little respect in order to be in harmony with each other and in the world.