Where do you feel content?

The place I feel content isn’t the place I ever expected it to be. The very place I think of when I think to where I feel perfectly content is a fire pit behind my house. In my opinion it is in the perfect location. It is surrounded by trees and the pit is made of stones that were found in the woods. There are 3 benches surrounding it that sit perfectly into the earth around them. It looks like a picture cut out from a magazine. I could sit there for literally hours. The first time I realized this was the place I felt content at was a warm summer night. I hadn’t been having the best day and I hadn’t seen any of my friends for weeks because I was always working or just too busy. That night I decided to call a couple people and suggest the idea or having a fire, to catch up and just relax. Sure enough everyone I called came. We all sat at the fire the entire night. We told stories, we listened to music, we laughed, we had heart to hearts and we filled each other in on things that were happening in our lives, the good and the bad. I remember looking at everyone and wishing it would never end. That night I realized who the people were that I care about more than I care about myself. The people who I think of as family. I felt completely content. From that day on the fire pit behind my house became my place of comfort. When I’m feeling depressed or stressed out I’ll go out and make a fire, listen to music and just relax. I’ll think of the one perfect night I had out there with my friends and it helps put me at ease. Even when I’m happy I’ll go out there and enjoy everything around it like the smell of campfire and the pine trees. No matter what mood I’m in I can go out there to sit and think about anything. I never would have guessed a fire pit could mean so much to me, but I’m glad I was able to find a place where I feel content.