Alone In The Park

It's been awhile, right?.. I just feel too lazy, lately... Haha..

Anyway, it's still the same old day... Clear blue sky with clouds... Well, there might be a slightly difference, but these past few days everything seems like still almost the same, though.

I'm trying to find something else to do, away from busy work, like watching movies maybe, but it's kind of hard lately for me to even find actual free time. I remember, my last visit to the cinema with my brother was to watched "Jumanji : Welcome to the Jungle". I think, that was about 2 or 3 years ago? Huh!.. But now, recently, I'm more into watching documentaries rather than movies, though.. :) Anyway, Jumanji was still a good one. I didn't know how many times I had been laughing each time until my stomach hurts!

However, there was one movie that I always remembered and has really made my mind puzzled even until now. It was an old movie, called "The Lake House" in 2006, played by our beautiful Sandra Bullock along with handsome Keanu Reeves. I just felt that the story was confusing and it didn't make sense, which I really have to watched it again few times. It's a little bit of fantasy type of movie but in fact, it's actually a touching and heart-warming story. And, it made me almost cry...

Anyway, since I can't promise when I could watch a movie again, I managed to free myself just for one day after quite a long time, and ended up finding myself sitting alone in the park, instead. Well, everything looks quiet... No sound... No people, only me... Alone...

But, I don't really find it's strange or weird nowadays, because of the new normal environment that we're living right now. I think, you know what I mean... :) Well, we used to have people or families with kids walking, playing and running around the park, with having fun, happy and laugh... But now, it doesn't feels that way anymore. And, that's normal.., for now.

So, it seems I needed to get used to myself now of having to experience this kind of surroundings with less people or even no people at all, whenever I want to go for a walk in the park. It's funny when I suddenly thinking of this, like you're practicing social distancing too, apart from wearing mask, at the same time.. Huh!

Initially, I didn't plan to go for a walk in the park. It happened that I needed to passed by the park to go to a convenience store nearby. But, when I came back from the store and was walking along through the park, I decided to stay for a while. I thought, I wanted to just cleared my mind a little bit... So, I found myself a bench to sat down and held an open umbrella in one hand above my head. Well, it was not raining but a so damn hot weather!

It was around 3.30 pm. It felt very heaty due to the intense hot that may have caused less or no people around in the park at this hour, mainly the children. Or, it could be due to the new normal condition that we're living right now?.. But, speaking about the children, I suddenly realised that I seldom saw any children or kids playing in the park nowadays. Normally, the park used to be their playground. But now, it seems to be no more. Today, kids were advised to just stay at home or play at home.

However, there's a planning to reopen the schools later in the end of the month, which it has to go by stages, at first. It's been awhile for the children hasn't gone to school for about 3 months now?.. I think.. And, with all the things that have changed a lot right now, it appeared to have made the kids to really have to adjust their lifestyles altogether too. They need to wash their hands, wearing a face mask, practicing social distancing and so forth, which I feel, a bit empathy for them at young age. And I even think, it's the same goes to the playground in the park as well?.. Would the children's playground soon will be left empty? But if yes, it wouldn't be left alone for too long... I hope...

I'm not sure about the kids today, but for me playground is a must when I was a child. No matter how many times when I'm on my way back home from school, I must dropped by at the park first, to just wanted to play in the playground until late evening almost everyday.. My mom.., well yes, she knows me.. And, she would definitely grumbled at me as soon as I came back home late :)

But, back to what I'm seeing things here right now, the playground is empty. The entire park is quiet. The environment is dull. It's kind of gloomy feeling....

Then, suddenly... Oh! I better get going now. I can't stand with the heaty feel due to the hot weather. It was not even 15 minutes I've been sitting here and, I already could feel an intense hot!...

So I think, bye for now!.. Or, maybe I should take things slow??