amazed

yesterday while riding home from work and a post-work week beer with a co-teacher, i got to see what must be one of the top 5 things I have ever witnessed in my life. I was biking along the ATT and was just getting to a bridge that is about a mile from my house and i was looking up towards the darkening sky and saw a shooting star, now i have gone out to the countryside to watch the Perseid meteor showers before and they are nice, but this was truly magnificent. Just stunning. the thing ripped across the sky, burning and sending chunks of smaller bits popping off. the falling star didn't burn for a second or two and then disappear it streaked across the entire sky, amazingly bright and glorious. I was and still am in awe. I wish everyone had seen it. It made me appreciate the beauty of randomness and chance. A lesson I will carry and try to remember for a long time.