How can people be so blind?

The journey to and from college is probably one of the most beautiful. The rugged landscape littered with small secluded hamlets, with majestic monuments to the Cornish heritage forever emerging amongst the most rich of life countrysides.

In the evenings on the way home, on a brisk, bitter,clear day, the sunset is so elaborate, so breathtaking, that my hand yearns for a paintbrush, to be able to convert the emotion from that scene onto a canvas. To be able to show those close to me what I see, to see it through my eyes. To understand how undeniably beautiful the colours that spread out across the sky really are. The firy reds, pastel pinks and azure blues tingeing the clouds. This sunset does not mask the countryside that we travel through, it enhances it. The Cornish mines and monuments become so much more against the sky. Even on a foggy morning, with mist embracing the landscape, they look more than old abandoned buildings of what was, but more like something that forever is. Is more part of the earth, land and history than we as human beings and our homes will ever be.

This is how Cornwall as a whole makes me feel, so full of emotion it is set to burst, so full of utter complete allure that I can not be anything but overwhelmed by it.

What irritates me, is how although other people can see this enticing view, they dismiss it. They do not a appreciate it and just put it to the back of their minds and dream of other beautiful lands, supposedly better than ours because they're abroad.

Not once have I heard another person on my bus, other than myself say, how angelic the route we take is. This makes me wonder if they can see it at all??

That they are all so submersed in their own little worlds, their own little dramas that they cannot have the open mindedness to be able to just look out of the window, or take a walk, breathe the cold air and appreciate the county we live in. And with this realise, that our home is the most beautiful of places, and that you do not need to travel to find it.

 Open your eyes.

then open them again.

Terry Pratchett