Lost

One day, I went to attempt a monthly beauty routine when I took a wrong turn on an attempted walk home. Instead of turning around when I realized I took this said wrong turn, I decided I was going to just keep walking. No, I was compelled to keep going the way I turned. And I was quite glad that I took this wrong turn.

I'd been wandering the city for about an hour, looking at the buildings, and checking out the scenery when I'd come across this strange little market-place-like attraction. All of the buildings were white with stone gray rooftops, and stone elephants and lions guarding the front gate entrance. Confused, I went inside the place.

As I'd thought, it was an old market. It didn't look like anything was open, so it was a nice time to simply walk around and take in my surroundings. It was quite pretty. Despite being mostly stone, and the lack of water under the bridge making the place look barren, it actually was a very pretty place.

While I walked deeper into this mysterious marketplace, the buildings disappeared, and I found myself in a park so vast, and so serene, I did the one thing that I thought I would never do when wandering by myself in this city..... I turned off my iPod and listened to the silence.

I never thought I'd live to see the day where I would find a place so serene that I would take off my headphones and simply soak in the silence. There were trees! And beautifully placed rocks. There was also a huge lake where if you went further down, you could rent paddle boats and go all the way around this lake. Being that it's still February, though, it was closed. Which was why the whole place was silent, really. Everything was closed.

No matter what, it was still a beautiful sight. Standing on the deck while the sun was setting made for a great scene. If there was moonlight, I would've said that it looked like something out of an episode of Sailor Moon. Except it was sunset. And the last time I checked, there was no such thing as Sailor Sunset. It doesn't even make sense, really. But that's not the point.

The point is, I think I'll be getting lost more often. If I could find beautiful finds such as that park, which I have no idea how I ended up there, or what it was even called, then I could find other gems of this city. And I've got to find as many as possible.

Tianjin picture of the day!

I guess my hair is desperate to be a star...