There are many places that can have a strong effect on our
lives.  Visiting these places can leave a strong impression on the
heart or a strong dig to the soul.  There are also places that one
can visit that leave but the slightest memory, a small infantile 
vestige upon the mind.  These places are either forgotten or 
misrepresented in the cavernous depths of the human mind.  One
place that one can visit that can have a profound effect, both good
and bad, is the place inside themselves.  One can never
fully explain everything hiding behind each dark corner of the 
human psyche.  A place that may be forgotten is a physical place.
While happy moments and sad moments may still yet occur in these
places, the majority of them fade away with the changes of the
seasons.  Two types of places exist in the world today, one inside
the mind and soul, and the typical physical place.

In some cases, there is an advantage to visiting the place
inside each person.  Indeed, people all must harbor such a place
inside them lest they be forsaken for one who is not alive.  One
time to visit inside is on a bright sunny summer day.  Lying on 
the beach, a person can close their eyes and open their mind to a world
within.  The person inside comes forth to act out yet another role. 
As the eyes shut off the day's brightness, the passage into the
soul begins.  What may be seen there?  In many cases, there is a 
soft pink light lighting a previously hidden horizon.  Bright
green soft grass appears before the visionary.  Indeed, this place
has two of everything working in a harmony unknown in the world of
light, everything working to a music of sweet melody.  Alas, the
journey has led to love, just one part of hte place inside.
However, in the land of light, if one spends a summer's day at a
tourist trap, one will enjoy one's self for the moment.  But,
without a camera, what in the future will remain of the
visit?  (Nothing much, if anything much at all.)  Only a fading 
memory of a day past yesterday.  But in that place inside, the 
person can venture past love.  He or she will find a huge amusement park
with bright lights and blue sky.  He or she will see sparks of light fly
up into the sky, and hear the sounds of sweet laughter.  Here one 
has come across happiness.  In that summer's warm light, one has
found yet another beautiful place inside.

In the real world, however, one could watch a sporting event.  
While he or she will root for a team, or just watch with passive interest,
one will not remember much about the game afterwards.  The game will just 
become another distraction, a dissention from the rigors of the truths
of life.  But in that world inside, he or she can come upon yet another
place.  This place is not unlike the other two, but it shows a beautiful
scene of tall grass and flowers.

In the middle of this part of hte world inside, there is a road expanding
farther than the soul-traveller can see.  This place is hope, yet another
part of the spirit of the intrepid traveler.  The real world offers little
hope on a summer's day spent driving around.  While cruising the streets
listening to an electric beat may be enjoyable for the time, it offers no
memory or emotion to last beyond the days.  There are many benefits to
looking at the world inside and staying there, if not only for a short 
while.

There are benefits to the real world, as well.  The real
world can offer many things to the person, both good and bad.  
While the real world causes many of the usages and visitations to 
the world inside, and shapes the frequency of certain places being
visited, it also offers remedies to the beast it creates.  For
example, the real world brings forth conversation with others who
understand the plight of the person.  If life seems its worst,
one can always busy themselves with some action or diversion.
conversation in a park, or in a car, with a close friend is perhaps
the safest place to visit for a person much troubled.  However, in 
the world inside, one can visit a place where the sky has fallen
dark.  The person will stand on a tall cliff overlooking a deep and
angry sea, crashing against the rock shards and boulders making up
the beach.  The rain falls hard and angry.  This place is the place
with no proper name, a place of bitter depression.  In the real
world, one can enjoy sharp scenery in a place protected by the laws
of the world.  The person can venture out into this place with someone
he or she cares about, someone he or she loves.  This place offers
memories and times that will be relived in dream sequences of the
future.

But, in the inside world, there is yet another dark place.
Here the person lies down, staring at the grey sky.  There is 
no living thing in sight.  There is a dirt road to their right, but
no one comes down this road.  This place is called loneliness, and
is present in each person alive.  And because it is inside, the
person has no recourse from it.  In the real world, there are
places to visit of major importance to the person.  For instance,
there can be an old battlefield where an ancestor fought.  Touching
the grounds or feeling the weapons can bring a vision of the past,
and keep a sense of history in the person forever.  But, in the
inside world, there is a place littered with broken things and
destroyed buildings.  An entire city leveled to the ground.  
Everything is gone, and everything is lost.  This place is sadness.
There is nothing here to remember, nothing to be proud of.  Just
another wasteland, the place harboring a lost generation.  Indeed,
there are many dark corners of the inner world, and many bright
places in the real world.

The effects of these places can be immensely profound.  The
inner world is used and shaped by events in the real world.
However, a visit into one of the corners of this world can and does
have immeasurable effects on the person, both in the real world and
in that world.  The real world, however, can be a wasted time or a
meaningless place.  But it can also be useful and memorable.  The
real world may or may not have a profound effect on the person who
visits its deepest corners.  While one can never argue the benefits
of visiting places, there may be some places that should never be
visited.  This ominous fact, above all, shows the delicate balance
of two distinct, powerful types of places.