Do you ever feel empty when you don't have something you really love with you? As in a phone, laptop, keys, car, significant other, pet, parents, etc. Well I bet that's exactly how the park feels when it doesn't have any people inside it. This park should be full of joy, love, and entertainment. Lately, Paradise park has been lonely more like abondoned and I know it's getting cold but a park is a park.
When I go roam the park I also check to see if the play ground is full of children, running around with a smile from ear to ear. But it's totally the opposite I see at least 2-3 children playing in the play ground. Maybe because the time I usually go to the park which would be around 6:00 p.m - 7:00 p.m. When the sun is finally setting and the night is now shining.
When Paradise Park feels empty it doesn't seem much of a park. Although it's a home for the animals that live there. During my observations, I've noticed a lot about the park I never really knew. It seems as if I got attached to the park and connected more with it.
"Today marks another day of my observations, where is everyone? It feels so lonely and abandoned, is the weather making people foget about this beautiful park? I guess it's just me and the animals today. It's getting kind of chilly now that the weather is changing. This park just feels a little lonely without usually seeing people play soccer in the other side, children in the play ground, and many others jogging around the park. My field notes 10/31"
At the end of the day, I feel like we should try to interact more with nature. Bring back our childhood and play in the parks like how we used to. When the park feels empty it doesn't look much like a park. I know because I've exprienced it's sense of emptiness while I observed it. 
(My field notes photos 10/31)
A picture of the Paradise Park at night. It doesn't really show much but it's empty other than the animals that live there and me.
When I'm at the Marina, even on sunny warm days, I'm often a bit taken aback by the lack of people. We live in a relatively large community. It seems like more people would be out, taking advantage of the spaces we have available. What are they all doing instead? Watching TV? Working out in a gym? I don't understand.
ReplyDeletePeople would rather go to a gym than take a run outside but why? I would expect people to want to be with nature and see new things but I guess people would rather be in gym not enjoying the beauty on nature.
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