Helium-filled Balloons.
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zaichikarkyHelium filled balloons are special. Most people can't just get them any day they want, who would own a helium machine? They're used for special occasions. For birthdays, special events, fancier parties, etc. Those balloons usually end up with 2 fates. They get popped at the end of the special occasion such as the balloons we use for orientating freshmen and their families at the orientation sessions I work at. Or if they are a present, they usually float in a corner of someone's room until they deflate and are thrown away.
Today I wanted to take home some of the orientation balloons. We have a small bunch of 4 pretty balloons in front of all the useful rooms people visit during orientation. I wanted to take a bunch into my room because I wanted to save their popping fates. I thought they were pretty and fun to play with and wanted them to sit in my room for a while. But then I remembered the other fate that helium-filled balloons can face.
Sometimes when these balloons are tied outside somewhere, or a careless person lets them go, they float away. Up up and away these balloons go, and that, I thought to myself, was the very best fate a hellium-filled balloon could face. Earlier I saw one of our purple direction balloons float away somehow. It was probably not fastened to the post securely. I always like to watch these ballons float away into the horizon , wondering where they would end up.
So after playing with the balloons I wanted to take into my dorm, I let them go and watched them fly away north east because that's where the wind was blowing. I had wondered where these balloons would end up. I had never seen balloon fragments laying around on the ground somewhere, and there is a few factors to that. Balloons would probably end up stuck in trees, and then there is the rarity of balloons floating away.
So I let the balloons go wondering where they would end up and was happy to just wonder about it, not searching for an answer. Because somethings may just as well be better of left unanswered... I had been content knowing that I did the very best for those special balloons filled with the light gas which would send them free.
Today I wanted to take home some of the orientation balloons. We have a small bunch of 4 pretty balloons in front of all the useful rooms people visit during orientation. I wanted to take a bunch into my room because I wanted to save their popping fates. I thought they were pretty and fun to play with and wanted them to sit in my room for a while. But then I remembered the other fate that helium-filled balloons can face.
Sometimes when these balloons are tied outside somewhere, or a careless person lets them go, they float away. Up up and away these balloons go, and that, I thought to myself, was the very best fate a hellium-filled balloon could face. Earlier I saw one of our purple direction balloons float away somehow. It was probably not fastened to the post securely. I always like to watch these ballons float away into the horizon , wondering where they would end up.
So after playing with the balloons I wanted to take into my dorm, I let them go and watched them fly away north east because that's where the wind was blowing. I had wondered where these balloons would end up. I had never seen balloon fragments laying around on the ground somewhere, and there is a few factors to that. Balloons would probably end up stuck in trees, and then there is the rarity of balloons floating away.
So I let the balloons go wondering where they would end up and was happy to just wonder about it, not searching for an answer. Because somethings may just as well be better of left unanswered... I had been content knowing that I did the very best for those special balloons filled with the light gas which would send them free.
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Date: 2005-06-25 03:46 am (UTC)Though... inhaling the helium and talking funny is fun too. ^_^
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Date: 2005-06-26 11:33 pm (UTC)I once released a bunch of balloons out to the sky. No one wanted the balloons so I used them as a birthday thing. I made my friend make a wish for every balloon we released and it was fun just thinking up random funny wishes that related to the color of the balloon. For example, for a green ballon he wished for money. Or saphire gin for a blue balloon. It's always fun watching them disappear into the horizon.