On the walk home from the bus stop I pass a schoolyard. The students are long since dismissed by the time I come by it. Today however, I saw a girl standing on top of a platform on the jungle gym. She was leaning on the guard rail and staring off into the distance. Perhaps she was watching the setting sun or looking at the Vancouver skyline. I have to say that it was an image that captured me, to see someone so young in such an introspective state. She did not seem to be sad, just considering. It made me remember that when I was young I was not always naive or ignorant but sometimes sat and just thought in solitude about live and existence. I briefly wondered if it would make a good photo: this young girl staring out into the horizon, the city, the setting sun, with such a degree of thoughtfulness. Youth, facing the expanse of the future. But then I remembered that men such as myself don't take pictures of random young girls, that is considered to be weird, thanks to the efforts of a very small yet particularly sick group of deviants within our society. So I fell from my own introspection and settled back into the ordinary groove that is my place in this boring, depressing reality.