I vaguely remember when I was like 6 or 7, I was at my maternal grandparent’s ancestral house and it was summer and I was just lying outside on the ground staring at the night sky, and I think the adults were just talking about stuff I don’t remember. I mean its been almost 2 decades, the memory is very fuzzy. I remember ther was lizards on the house, and there was like a very swampy farmland area thing (idk how to describe it lol). It wasn’t like the done with machinary, at least not at the time, it was done manually. (Luckily I never had to do that, my Hukou was rural so it would’ve been quite shitty), I heard from my mother there was some blood-sucking worm hiding on the farm. This was in Mainland China around 2000-2010s, so there wasn’t much electricity in the village, and very few light-pollution. I don’t remember there being internet, my concept of the world was so small, now I’m all the way in the United States. I heard that most people die very close to where they were born, and don’t even have a passport. And I’ve have passports from 2 different countries! (well not simultaneously, but you get the idea)

I don’t think I ever recognized any contallations, I was way too young at the time. Or maybe I did and forgot… 🤷‍♂️

Now I kinda wanna just go someplace rural to see the night sky, bit unfortunately, not being white and going to a rural area in America feels… um… 👀 verrry sketchy, to say the least (cuz racism lol).