lost in my memories..

goodbyes make you want to somehow take everything around you and preserve it all. for posterity. it makes you fonder of the places and the faces you'll soon leave. makes the people seem gentler and nicer and the place more beautiful. most of all it just makes you look with new eyes at this place you may never see again. and so it was that i ended up taking this photograph of a place which would be my idyllic dream spot on any starry night.
but while i was there, i've never spent a nite out there. the fact that this is in the middle of a golf course with 'no trespassers' written in bold, is just half of the reason. the other half is that i never really realized it. until goodbye.

all through it i took comfort in the truth that i wasn't the only one. i remember this takes-a-goodbye-to-make-it-priceless is an endemic collegiate sickness. found particularly in all final years. i say this from experience when i say that no one loves college the way someone does who is about to leave it. people who have left it, well.. they don't love college. they just love their memories of it. the nostalgia and feel.