My summer place(after I read once more to the lake) - Essay Example

My two brothers and I would visit Crystal Lake twice a year, usually during our summer break. The years had passed, and the inevitable had happened, we had all grown apart. One of my brothers moved to the east, the other to the west, and we hadn’t spoken in quite some time. It was the morning of my birthday. I was staring out the window at the rain pouring from the ceilings of the heavens, covering the streets turning them into a swarm of distant rivers. I lay on my bed dreaming about the calmness of the lake and the never ending beauty that I for so long had seemed to have forgotten.

For it was now only a dream inside my empty soulless mind. Too many years had passed and too many things had been forgotten. The memories were now merely a torn out page of an old book I had lost. And I too, just like that book, had been lost as well. The thoughts circling around in my head, like a dusty wind storm, started to give impressions of eagerness. I knew deep down inside me, that I couldn’t just sit here, on my birthday, again. I collected all of my unorganised thoughts and compiled them into one, sensible plan.

I decided that I would venture off back to Crystal Lake. If I didn’t go, I knew I would eventually be driven to insanity. I also determined that I would give my brother’s a call. I hadn’t spoken to them in years, but I knew that Crystal Lake wouldn’t be the same as it was back when we were young without them. Unfortunately, neither brother was home when I called, so I left a message on their answering machines. I informed them that I would be returning to our spot, although I doubt they cared.

But that wouldn’t stop me. I would still go on my quest back to Crystal Lake. I packed all of the relevant camping equipment, my large tent which I had kept all these years, together with an assortment of blankets. I had never been much of a fisherman, so I decided to prepare some food to take with