Memories by Chance

My hand ignorantly looked for a light-weight change to the darkish corridor, and with a small “click on”
all the things was illuminated. After tripping over boots, with a slight limp, I stumbled to the darkish brown
door on the finish of the corridor. Turning the chilly golden knob revealed a really untidy exercise room with
containers of papers and chairs right here and there. Strolling swiftly to the bench press, I fell proper right into a
overturned lazy boy. Towered above have been flat brown containers, break up on the edges; what spilled out caught
my eye.

Photos upon photos avalanched out of the field, however just one shined with curiosity to me.
An image of my brother, mom, and my very own again, to the digicam. Standing proper on the sting of an
over hanging, we face a rare view of the Grand Canyon. Simply taking a look at this image
sends a shiver of chilly needles crawling up your backbone.

I really feel like a nugatory worm wanting into it’s
abyss. The rust crimson, granite white, and yellow sand stone layer upon one another, and mesmerize on
looker’s eyes. Birds of all completely different sizes hunt the sky for the occasional fallen mammal or fish out of
water. Clouds of air shimmer beneath with warmth, and wind cracks the lips with warmth. The air smells of dry
grass , rock, and air.

I sifted by quite a few different photographs however my gaze stayed glued on the majestic, but
intimidating, canyon. One false transfer and these rock partitions ,respiration rock partitions, will swallow you
complete. As a baby simply standing on that cliff with out a steel barrier of security was a feat of braveness.
That cliff might come unfastened at any second taking my household and I into its jagged tooth beneath. Now as an
older particular person I might be full of vitality re-experiencing the Grand Canyon, however nonetheless respect it’s hazard.

On this one low-cost plastic picture have been hundreds of thousands of years of change. The Grand canyon formed by
passages of time, carved by the masterful hand of the Colorado River. A chunk of artwork and but over 600
deaths have occurred right here. I bear in mind my step-dad and brother performed a joke on me, shaking me as I
leaned over a guard rail. It gave me the sensation of sunshine headedness proper earlier than a fall. I snort on it now,
however to me earlier than I noticed that I wasn’t falling, I assumed the grand canyon was sucking me into its
gnashing tooth. That break up second was a horrible feeling.

I bear in mind ,as I left the Canyon, feeling like dropping a superior. I want I might have stayed longer
and discovered extra about it, and extra about myself. After all to my dad and mom and brother this was simply
one other pleasing trip, however to me it , a 10 12 months outdated, this was an unforgettable expertise. It’s unhappy,
that stunning place with its nice heights ,layers of the previous, and number of wildlife will turn into a blur of
the previous as I age.

I noticed that it was turning into late , and these reminiscences had despatched me right into a daze. I flipped the
picture and seen an outline; Grand canyon, August 2003. Almost 5 years again and issues are
already turning into blurred. Sighing I gathered the photographs, paperwork, invites and different tokens of
my household’s previous, stacked them within the break up field , and began to exchange the lid on the highest. Hesitating, I
stopped, questioning if I might ever see these photos once more. I positioned the lid again on the bottom in
hopes that one other weary stumbling member of the family would journey on the overturned lazy boy ,and knock
over all these reminiscences.