Beautifully Flawed

1.Summer Sunset

So I reread my first chapter and just realized how lacking it was in content. So if you are reading for the first time, happy reading! If you have already read well, I promise the edit is better... hopefully
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Jimin's POV

It's tough living alone. What's even tougher is not being able to share the beautiful moments with someone you love and care about. You know there are those moments that just come your way unexpectedly and send your heart racing and just for a split second you wish you had someone beside you to share that moment with? Yeah, those moments.

"It's a lonely world," I sigh as I walk through the city dodging traffic.

Work was crazy today - between deadlines and uncooperative colleagues - I was exhausted mentally and physically and I had this insane need to decompress. Take a step back, get some fresh air and unwind and my best cure for that is a walk along the river. One among the many things that makes this city beautiful is the Han River that cuts through it. There is something insanely beautiful about cities that have rivers flowing through them. They give them a sense of continuity and some... mystery.

I come here often. I love sitting on the park benches along the river. My favorite time is the evening time, especially just when the sun is setting and the city comes alive preparing for the bustling nights - nights so full of life you'd think that the day has more than twenty four hours. I think it's only at night that one can really appreciate the beauty of having a river in the city - the multicolored lights reflecting across the river, the lit up bridges, the restaurants on the water, the live bands playing at the pop up pubs along the river, the occasional cruise ship docked at the river and just the wind and water... peaceful.

I get there just in time to see the sun set. The sun is already dipping behind the horizon, but the daylight still lingers in the air as though it has been accidentally left behind. Clouds change to hues of orange, and then almost tangerine. Silhouettes of birds far away flying home across a sky that is now magenta and the city lights slowly come alive painting the beautiful canvas that is the water surface. A gust of wind blows across the river bringing with it a nice chill that sends a shiver down my spine. While it is summer, areas around the river are usually cooler - another reason I love coming here.

The summer sunset has always had the ability to evoke emotions in me and gives me a longing for things - things that were long buried and almost forgotten. Almost. Just looking at the sky reminds me of how nice it is to feel. Can you imagine that somewhere in this universe, there is someone who has no feelings? I think feelings are what define being human. The ability to cry when you see a beautiful sky at sunset or laugh till it hurts is a gift!

I love how the lights on the restaurants along the river are mellow, how the music is soft and how the mood is... oh so romantic... so gentle... so... so inviting. My mind wanders and snippets of my life come running through my mind. I am feeling particularly nostalgic today. Then there is just this feeling I get at the core of my being that the tides are shifting and I can feel a change is coming. Whether it's a good or bad change, I cannot tell you that. All I know is, something is going to happen. I can feel it in my bones. Trust me, I am no superstitious person; let's call it... instinct. Yeah... I am gonna go with that.

I find a lonely park bench and sit. A lot of the other benches are littered with couples wiling the evening away after a hard day at work.