A Mid-Summer(?) Night's musing

The Sun has come up finally. It's a bit wierd seeing the sky lighten before my very eyes. Usually it is dark when you sleep and bright when you wake up. After a long time I have seen dawn. I am sure many of my friends would claim the same (if they manage to wake up in the wee hours just once that is!) Not sleeping when everyone is, seems to be a very lonely and sad experiment. I'm sure many have endured night-outs. Preparing for IIT, the mid-sems, the end-semesters, etc, etc. Today is nothing special. I got no test tomorrow for which I need to stay up to complete the syllabus. It was just another run-of-the-mill, ordinary day. Still I have stayed awake for so long. Doing nothing. Sometimes dreaming. Gazing at the stars and the moon. Wondering about everything. Climbing to the topmost point in the hostel to be the nearer to the moon than anyone. There is a peculiar serenity about stars. I know they are really hot balls of a multitude of gases with some sort of omnipresent turbulence. But from here they look just fine. There is nothing hot or bothered about them. When I reach the top, I lie down and they seem closer than most. I vividly remember the galaxy Orion. It has a dark beauty about it. It represents a warrior. But oh such a peaceful warrior. I have no real important stuff on my mind then. Just run of the mill, little stuff. But suddenly they become larger than life. Just because they are there..

PS: Don't remember at what point in college I wrote this. Might have seemed a bad idea at the time, but I see I don't need to work on it. Qualifies as a musing, which is the point of this blog anyways.. :)