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welcome to 2010! a few days late, I know, and I apologize for that. n.n But I think this year is all about things not going as planned or on time, which is exactly what I'm about to tell you.
I spent this new years with Emilee, who I think is going to be my best friend for a really long time. We went down my street to eat dinner, which wasn't that exciting, but when we came back was what I'll actually remember. At eleven fifty-five, we went outside on my porch, the two of us, and screamed and danced as we counted down to one, to two thousand and ten, a new year, more memories, friends, and adventures~
We watched fireworks and talked as we sat out on my porch, making toasts with chocolate ice cream from walls. We toasted to everything we were grateful for, or anything that made us laugh that night. Maybe everybody should take time for a little bit and toast to everything that makes them laugh or smile, and maybe there would be just that many more of them.
Our first resolution is to care about school less. Not to let our grades go to waste, but not to let it get to us or stress us. I think we, humans, kids, spend so much time worrying and freaking out about projects that we forget to look at the big picture. That everything for school has to be perfect and because of that desire it's harder to be thankful for all the things that aren't perfect.
Next? A toast~ to not being perfect. To accepting everything that isn't perfect and acknowledging the beauty in every little piece of it. To feeling beautiful on all the bad hair days, to being most thankful for the things that everybody wishes was gone.
One thing that I don't think I will ever, ever forget (or at least hope I won't) is something that Julia, the three year old down the street, said. She told us about how she found the moon. And the more I think about it, isn't that really what life is about? Reaching out and finding that out-of-the-world, glowing place where everything is foreign and beautiful. That going through everything that I go through is walking up the path made by stars. The moon counts as that happiness that everybody is looking for.
I'm sure Julia didn't think like this when she said it, but that's the beauty of an innocent mind~ what they find as absolutely exciting and what they see is just a microscopic fragment of 'the big picture'. The universe is ours, and it's about time that we took it by the reins and found that path to the moon, and start climbing it.
 m i s s NiCOLiE · Sun Jan 03, 2010 @ 06:15am · 0 Comments |
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