Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Orionid (獵戶座) meteor shower

It is ironic that someone romantic (well, at least I want to be) like me never goes to any meteor shower watching before. And as a confession, I never had a chance to be dazzled by the stars before the trip to Grand Canyon in the summer of 2003.

Why? Cause I used to feel that even though I knew I would love it, I wouldn't be sorry if I missed it. There are too many adventures, but too little time.

Then why this one? I don't have an answer yet. But definitely I wasn't expecting to go with 3 cars of people, and probably missed half of the meteors for we were so focused on laughing out of the conversations. It was though just not as poetic and sentimental as imagined, it was fun.

And I wasn't expecting that the meteors fly too fast for us to make wishes. 12 meteor, 1 wish. For the rest, what came out of my mouth is "there", "wow", "another one", "eh", "ah", "big one"... Mostly "another one", and they all came true.

After we came home, I look out my window during 2-3 am, which supposed to be the peak of shower. There went 6 meteors in my very limited window view. I wasn't able to make any wish in time for I was astonished by the fact that I was actually seeing it with all the severe light pollution. I thought through many things, many places, and many people. I enjoyed the quiet moment with the flashing dust out in the space.

No comments: