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Phenomena
I know that
the earth rotates around the sun
but I still look at the pastel watercolor of the sunrise and wonder.
You may tell me:
it rains, see, because the water evaporates and the air cools and
there’s this thing called a dewpoint, and when everything is just right,
the water condenses, and these plump little drops are too
heavy, and they just
fall.
but I like to look out the window and watch the rain.
And then, I’ll see a rainbow
which is really just the spectrum of visible light, exposed for a moment
but maybe there really is a pot of gold at the end.
Sure, there’s science. But sometimes, I’d like to escape the world of
mathematical proofs and logical arguments.
It’s nice to believe in good-luck clovers and shooting stars, if only for a
moment.
It’s not naïveté or Peter Pan; it’s just
for once
suspending disbelief.
- Julia Calagiovanni, grade 10