Keeping The Buzz Going

A Fox and a Bear had just left a concert that they were both excited about attending. The concert was as good as advertised and the two friends had enjoyed themselves thoroughly.

“That was freaking awesome!” Sanjay, the Bear, exclaimed.

“I know dude, I’m freaking buzzing.” Dilip, the Fox, added.

“I’m buzzing too!” Added Sanjay, “It’s crazy! See?”

Sanjay extended his hands to demonstrate that he was, indeed, buzzing from the concert.

They kept walking towards their car. They had no other plans for the evening so it felt natural to walk towards their car, get in, and drive home.

But as the two walked they kept feeling the feeling of their bodies buzzing. They had just had a wonderful, exciting, experience and didn’t want it to end. It’s not every day you experience something so exciting that your whole body buzzes and continues to buzz afterward. When that happens, you want the buzzing to last as long as it possibly can.

When Sanjay and Dilip were within sight distance of their car they both felt themselves instinctively slowing down their pace. They knew, from experience, their buzzing was soon to come to an end. They’d get in, drive home, sit down, take out their phones, start scrolling and be back to their regular lives. No more buzzing. Only the memory.

“Do you want to do something else?” Dilip asked.

“Yes,” answered Sanjay, “What do you have in mind?”

“I don’t know, I just don’t want to go back to being regular just yet,” offered Dilip, “Do you have any ideas?”

“Not really, I mean we could grab a drink, we could go for a walk, I just… I just wish the concert was longer,” Sanjay lamented.

The two made it to the car. They walked right past it. There was a corner bar further down the street. They walked past that too. There was a late-night bakery and dessert place just past the bar. They walked past that as well. They walked past everything.

All those places were familiar. They were great, nothing wrong with them but they weren’t really buzz-inducing nor were they buzz-sustaining. It felt like it would be a perversion of the experience to try and augment an otherworldly feeling with a feeling so… familiar.

It was a beautiful night. The air was warm and sweet. The two came upon a bench and decided to take a seat. They didn’t say anything to each other but just looked out at everything and appreciated the buzz they were feeling at that moment. The trees seemed greener, the stars seemed brighter, the world seemed more alive.

The two friends decided they weren’t going to do much better than giving in and allowing the Earth to take over from here.