@JosephAndriano
And then it was over.
I didn't have anywhere to be, no pressing matters to return to.
Instead of joining all the traffic fleeing the suddenly unremarkable lands, I sat there for a bit with my partner.
That field, that partner, the car I drove there in, they're all long distant parts of my past.
That feeling of reality, of the world at once coming into focus through paradoxical distance and quiet, that's a feeling I still search for.
I've only found it a few times.