Moonless Nights

We have about two weeks and three days left of the year. I wonder what people think or do during the last few weeks of the year. Do they sit down and think about their life? Do they look back at the year that's ending? Maybe think about the goals they completed and the ones that they'll be carrying on to the next? Do they consider the year to be a new beginning or it's just another year, who cares? I'm personally a great believer that with the new year comes a new attitude. I sit down and I think about what I did and didn't do during the year. Most importantly, I check myself. The good things I did? The negative things? Need improvement in any department? I create goals. Write a letter to future me. Create a board with pictures of places I want to visit and things I want to accomplish. It's a process that slowly but steady has helped me improve my life. This year for example I bought a car! This was one of the things on my list. I also did a road ...

I used to sit in the library for hours studying before heading back to my dorm to sleep. My roommate Sophia and her boyfriend Kevin had been traveling abroad and I found myself alone.  The cold snowy winters had caused for some classes to be canceled which allowed me to catch up on my work. I had finished reading my book and found myself bored one afternoon.  It had stopped snowing but the sky remained cloudy. I decided to stop by the local bar that would probably be empty at this time and grab a burger and a beer. Kyle, a friend, worked there and always gave me free lunch. I grabbed my coat and my bag and made my way downstairs. It was cold, probably below 15 degrees. I was fighting the two feet of snow that had fallen the previous night, I could barely walk. I surely didn’t want to slip and fall. “You have a cigarette?” I heard someone asked. I turned around and standing there was a man. He was black and had a white beard. He was wearing a red hat and a beat u...