Sunny has some thoughts about his day camping

Only about 500 words, so it's a quick read, but most of the time spent working on this was spent making the image near the end. I might make this a series, I really enjoyed writing something smaller and kind of all over the place. If I don't make it a series I'll probably still do more like this.

Enjoy :D

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Sunny’s Diary
By: Cheese

13/07/24
Dear Diary:

Today I’ve left with Jack to go camping. This was kind of a spontaneous decision, he just asked if I was interested in going, and I only really said yes because it’s Jack. I don’t know what possessed me to think this would be boring. Maybe living a life in the city has just ruined my perception of the world. This view is just incredible. For some reason I always thought it would be grueling, dirty, and generally awful being out of the city like this, but it’s nice. I’ve been so stressed lately, but now, looking out at the mountains that crowd the landscape, the sunset so delicately balanced on a peak; I can’t imagine myself being stressed again. How can I feel so awful if a place like this is just an hour’s drive away?

Jack’s in the tent changing right now. I’m so glad he brought me out here to see this. Even if there’s nothing else to do here but watch the scenery, it was worth it. He’s always called me a ‘city-boy’ and I always thought it was kind of annoying, but I could never bring myself to stop him. Something about the way he said it was endearing. Maybe I don’t enjoy the city as much as I tell myself. Would this trip really be so beautiful if I did? I doubt it. Maybe there’s something else to it though. I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to keep my arm charged coming out here, but I realized that I was worried over nothing. I know it can last two days on a full tank, and I brought two tanks plus the one that was in it when I left for a three day trip. I only really accepted because it ran out of fuel while I was with Jack before, and he was so nice about it, even drove me home.

I’ve been doing this a lot, now that I think about it. I need to get over myself and do things myself for once. Jack really makes me feel fuzzy inside sometimes. I should take a picture. I bought this fancy camera that prints out the pictures I take. Well, Jack paid half for my birthday. I haven’t really used it as much as I wanted to since I got it because I’ve always been worried that it wouldn’t look good, but why should that matter? It’s just a picture.

(image)

Anyway, tomorrow we’re going to this little town named “Small.” Jack said it was named after the original founder, Anthony Small, but I like to think that if this town got big enough they’d rename it to “Big.” Anyway, we’re gonna go to this history of logging museum. It sounds interesting, but to be honest I’m only going because Jack wants me to, he said it’s a lot cooler than it sounds. Small also has some really old-school diners and bars, which sounds really fun. Jack said that not many people out here have seen prosthetics as advanced as mine, so I’m kinda curious what people will think of it.

That’s all for today though. Jeez, it’s beautiful here.

- Sunny