Sunday, October 27, 2013

Jack O' Lanterns' (Home)town


     
         Heheheheh! Here comes the Headless Horseman, heads will roll!
         ...you're not scared? No? Okay...
         Oh, look! Bats are coming! They're everywhere!
         ...still not scared? Well then...
       
         Hello everyone, it's been awhile since the last post. For some reason, tonight I found my inspiration for a new story (where the heck is my mug?). Heheh, I'll use this story to buy back your hearts.
         So, long story short, my plan was to move in Bucharest. I ended up somewhere nearby the city, in a hometown that I see at least...interesting. And now that All Hallow's Eve's coming, the atmosphere changed also, although not many can notice that. I mean, I know I'm all enthusiastic about this day, though it's not specific to my culture, so I guess it's a good thing that sometimes commercial things spread around the world fast, carrying with them various traditions, myths, stories. Now I can sit all day long in all these stores nearby, stocked with pumpkin lanterns, paper bats, candies, lots of candies...and other goodies, skeletons, fangs, souvenirs and so on. Even the Hunter's Moon over the woods looks gorgeus these nights (yeah, I feel blessed to have this view from my third floor).
         And overneath all this stuff, the colourful autumn. Seriously, I love this season.

         Hmm...Perhaps that should be my list too :)
         For now, I'm planning to decorate my room till my 20th birthday, when I guess I'll turn into a mature person or so. But! That doesn't mean I will give up on my antics.
         I don't know, I just walk on the quiet crispy streets of this town I'm in right now, far from home, and I expect a change. Any change. But for the first time, I don't feel stressed and alienated by the place. From the first day I came here, I have to say that a strange good feeling settled in my soul, and I thought: maybe this could be a good home for a year or so. (And, of course, whenever I want to write or say that finally, I no longer have 'Caspers' on my tail, something happens in my room, then everything goes crazy (for some reason, my window's area is the scariest, LOL), although in the beginning it was okay, till a friend of mine started to use my silly-Ovilus-like app and call for them, so I had to uninstall it, but I guess I have to use it again to communicate. Ugh, fun on the other side never stops, I guess.)
     
       Oh, didn't want to forget to tell something about the surroundings: I already told you that my new hometown is surrounded by a forest, and here's the surprise, I found there an abandoned mansion with a first sight simple history. I already put it on my 'to visit' list. And the area of this town is expanding from what I've seen, though the people I see two times a day I guess they'll remain the same. The atmosphere and the people give you that community impression, maybe because it's a small village rather than a town; I wouldn't be surprised if the holydays here are respecting all those rites I know from childhood. Overall, I can't complain, it's a new place that I like and it is close to college, fun, projects and friends.
The place it's looking something like that :)

       But let's head back to the Halloween spirit: plans for that day:  well, room decorating, get my Mom's pumpkin and apple pies and share it with some friends, watch that special episode of Ghost Adventures in Romania, then make a marathon of gothic music and Halloween & autumn pictures collections, and maybe attending a Halloween theme party. Sounds simple and fun, if we don't think also about the rest of projects and all that routine I'm trying to break through. But hey, it's once a year, and I love this day, so let's enjoy this!
     
       Soon I'll be posting a poem that I wrote some time ago, and I think it fits a hollow atmosphere. It's in Romanian, but I guess I'll be able to translate it and keep its essence all at once.
       Also, I have so many ideas I should write about, so, if you have any questions or suggestions, let me know.
     
      Till then, I wish you a beautiful view from your window on these late October nights.