sometimes moments just freeze in time. certain random images become burned into your memory like a sienna hot brand molding its form into a wooden plank. the thing is, these moments are completely random. sometimes you can sense that you will want to remember something later: a concert, a cloud, someones face... but it just doesnt work, no matter how hard you try. other times its easy to recall which skirt and top your best friend screened with you before her night out. most of the time, however, these moments are seemingly pointless, left there in the dark corners of your conciousness waiting for you to discover the ounce of hidden significance you hadnt seen there. maybe im overestimating my own intuitiveness; maybe there is no method to the madness and all that we remember will serve no more than to flash before our eyes in the last moments before we die. even so, that brings meaning to it all, so in a way, these moments arent so random in the end...

i was hurried on my way to school today and the short breakfast of a honey bun and chocolate milk wasnt leaving such a great flavor in my mouth. so, like always, i pop a few certs mini mints (three of the tiny blue ones) in my mouth as im driving down the road. little things are like altoids, surprisingly strong mints so as usual i just spit them out the window after my mouth tastes better to avoid the shock of chewing them up and swallowing them. so, going fifty or so, i roll down my window, collect them on the right part of my tongue and prepare to spit them out. i probably should have been watching the road about now but i always like to watch them leaving the car. so heres the moment frozen in time. this vivid picture in my mind. you dont see the mints until they are about at the window, little stars of blue against the gray-black tarmac. little points of light frozen in formation, a constellation in space, a perfect triangle... pyramid style. just floating in space, stuck in their journey to the outside world. it was odd watching them idely sitting there, strangly belligerent, those damn little mints. cocky like they wouldnt let time persist until they were dually noted and appreciated. the moment lasted too long, seconds, hours, days... a lifetime. just... enough to scar. as is typical with these moments, it abruptly ended. suddenly the mints disappeared into the lower atmosphere, leaving behind for a nanosecond those little blue comet tails indicating the direction of their escape. and that was that, having observed all there was to notice, my eyes transferred their focus back to the road while my mind, still on the mints, was still trying to figure out what happened. life is like that sometimes, those moments we may not ever understand will hide themselves in our mental files until further notice. maybe another occurence years from now will spark the rehashing of this mental picture and i can enjoy it all over again. maybe i wont see it again until my last breath...