spend so long looking down that when you look up you realize

........

you forgot what the sky looks like.

the clouds surprise and the blue is almost shocking. It's a tough job, they say, but you know it's not. everyone lives the same life, with their head looking down. never daring to look outside the cave. the only thing that makes us different is the kind of dirt we are looking at.

for some it is course and gritty. for some it is damp and hard to transgress. for some it is sharp and cuts the feet. for some it is very fine and smoothly caresses the toes. And then, for some, the earth they see is one ever-changing; a fine marble with splashes of grey, vibrant greens, dark blues, awkward purples and terrifying reds.

What you get just matters where you start and which way you're goin.