Have ever been in absolute darkness? On my way home tonight, I stopped my truck on the roadside, shut everything down, turned off all the lights, and stepped out.  There is nothing. You can't see anything. A blackness so deep that you begin to feel dizzy from not being able to register any depth of any kind.

But out there, in the fields, you can hear the wind. You can hear everything in the absolute silence of it all. And then, you look up. And there's the night sky. Stars, everywhere. You can see the band of our own galaxy etched across the sky as millions of points of light reveal themselves to you.

I don't often stop and look at things in the night, but it makes me appreciate where I am. Although my province may be remote, and the collective IQ of the place could barely compete with a rock, in that darkness I realize there is no trouble here. I sit in a corner of the world not worth fighting over, not worth taking over, and not worth anyone's attention.

Meanwhile, in other parts of the world, somebody who tries to go to sleep and wake up tomorrow gets their town shelled by mortar fire. Somewhere out there, are people preparing for a brewing war in their country, or a looming virus, a plague with the promise to kill many.

Many of these things come from the darkness in people's hearts, from conceited actions and wills. But as I stood out there on that lonely old dirt road, on that small patch of nothing in the world I realized the dark I stood in was pure. It does not discriminate, asks of nothing, and is all consuming in it's simple purity.

Anywho, this should hold some value other than my semantic rambling, so here's your challenge. Find one thing in your corner of the world that you wouldn't trade. It seems for most folks, all they want to do is move away from their part of the world. But, surely, there must be one thing you take enjoyment from that you wouldn't throw away.

Let's hear it gentlemen.

I'm in the suburbs so I don't get that awesome open-world vibe that you mentioned. There is a place that makes giant pizza's though. I might miss that.

Very thought provoking sandtrap. Yet another quality thread.

Too bad I live in a city, which natural light and sound is washed over by sirens, horns, trains, and other noises siding with the city lights. It's rather difficult, trying to find something I wouldn't trade.

Doesn't get any darker than this.

Doesn't get any darker than this.

I did enjoy flying a kite as a kid.

The town about 8 miles from where I live has a lot of gas stations, stores, and restaurants that stay open late at night, but there's hardly ever anyone out and about after 11. I like to drive around town at night listening to some good music, just cruising around without a destination.

I hope you aren't like the asshole kids that go roaring down main street with their windows down blasting their farmer equivalent of ghetto music through their open windows.

Not blasting, no; and it's usually Billy Joel or something off of the Oldies station. I do enjoy having the windows down at night, though, so...maybe I'm kind of like those assholes a bit.

If you rev your engine and then go ripping down the empty street while screaming out the window, I'm going to find you. And I will ram this slow moving tank of a vehicle into yours, while letting my obnoxious engine sit idle and make enough noise to rival a gunshow because of the loose parts in it.



49 miles an hour of pure speed demon. Better watch out you.

Lol

They looked like fucking kites. I wouldn't be surprised if somebody made a kite out of them in fact.

I used to do that, back in my old town. We lived in the middle of nowhere, so the skies were nice and clear at night. It was peaceful, calming, tranquil. Heh, I miss it there, sometimes.

The embrace of the Dark is gentle. Let it absorb your sorrows forever.

Sorry.

I have Light inside.

Korra, pls. Humanity is one with the Dark.

Korra, pls. Humanity is one with the Dark.

Zygluta pls

I have a super spirit of supreme light literally inside my rib cage.

Zygluta pls

I have a super spirit of supreme light literally inside my rib cage.

... Umm you may want to see a doctor about that. >.>

A peace so deep it was like... the Dark