It’s now sunday, 2:30 am. I could barely catch my breath because I just finished my daily run. Today, I decided to take an extra hour and walk along the East River. No phone, music, calls, company, just me and myself 2:30 am by the East River hoping to experience something, learn something, focus on the sounds of  life and nature. I started walking for the first fifteen mintues, from my left side I heard the river water splashing and, from my right side there was the high way with cars driving by but also people sitting and talking. Surprisingly, there was a lot of people out this late at night. Eventually, I sat down for about thirty minutes, usually I space out and meditate and try not to focus on anything around me or in me. This time I closed my eyes and heard everything around me, like running feet, dogs passing by, grass hoppers in the grass. I was hearing those little sounds until, the ambulance came passing by on the highway with loud sirens, along with five cop cars behind that with their sirens. It always makes me wonder if there’s an actual emergancy everytime or do they just want to cut traffic. After the sirens, I wasn’t in the mood to stay anylonger, I started walking back home. Now, as I’m walking back home the river is to my right and the street is to my left. It’s a very different exprince, made me realize I hear better with my right ear rather than with my left ear. When I was walking to the bench I sat on, I couldn’t hear the river as clearly as I hear it walking home.