Night ride

It seemed as if we've been driving for ages now and the darkness outside made me deluded. I was struggling to keep my eyes open and my mind clear, feeling somehow certain that the second I lose control over my senses, the man beside me will do the same and we will crash.

The headlights cut a small, some thirty meters long, world of dreamy reality in the emptiness around us. It always looked the same. The narrow road and the grass and leaves on the sides, trembling in the light for a moment before disappearing in the nothingness again. We knew we were lost.

He pulled over and stopped the engine. We looked at each other and stepped outside of the car.

The air was cool and I trembled.

My eyes began to adapt to the sight around me. The world was slowly getting bigger. I could see the stars, the mellow moon and the hills around. The grass was leaning gently, caressed by the wind. I could hear the soft sound of everything out there that existed... despite me?

I felt as if someone pushed the mute button of the world I knew, made the walls and borders disappear. For the first time since... I didn't remember when... I felt I was out there and a part of it all. I started smiling.

"You can feel it too, can't you?"