under your nose

besides all the usual conventions and usual 'good things' in general about living off campus, the thing that i most like is riding my bike - specifically under the following clauses: when it is dark and two in the morning and there are no cars - there are no people - and you bike home as fast as you can with pleasant breeze in your hair and the air whooshing life into your previously tired eyes - riding down the middle of the street with the traffic light changing for you and thinking about - what if you are alone in the world? this is what it would be like - biking home in the dark with no sign of life.