A random image that becomes lodged deep in your brain.

I used to have this reoccurring dream when I was young. It would just be me standing in the yard of some elementary school. Even though I had never seen this school before I just knew it had to be in my hometown judging from the surrounding neighbourhood that looked so familiar. The problem is that, I had explored virtually every corner of my small town. So, to have an entire school in my neighbourhood be unbeknownst to me was unfathomable. And yet, these dreams persisted.

If wasn’t until my last year of high school, while I was skateboarding around my area, that I took a left instead of my usual right. Lo and behold, there was the school - exactly as I imagined it. Not only was it real, but it was embarrassingly close to me this whole time.

It’s amazing how much is hidden from us by nothing more than a simple lack of curiosity.