Now, I am not blinded and I can see my surroundings. In front of me lays a cement sidewalk that is stained with black spots. In the cracks of the sidewalk lay

Once she is gone I stare at a blank sidewalk with ants scrambling all over it. They look busy like they are doing a job. It is now six thirty and the ants must be rushing around to do their job before it gets dark. The sunlight is getting dimmer and I feel a coolness come through the air. My observation comes to a close because I have a meeting at seven at my sorority house. This once boring porch it now filled with life. Thus showing you that there is more than what meets the eye.

The door to my porch just opened and out steps one of my two roommates. She has come outside to smoke a cigarette and add to the pile of cigarette butts outside the porch. She sits there and interrupts me, asking me what I am doing. I tell her that I am observing and she looks at me confused. Her reddish brown highlighted hair hangs over her face as she inhales the cigarette. She gently puts her lips together as she blows out the smoke through her lips and nostrils. The smell the cigarette gives off chokes me and reminds me of the smell of an old astray. I just don't understand the satisfaction she gets from giving herself lung cancer. But the

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Approximate Word count = 770
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)