It's Complicated

If you must know life is too complicated to understand what is coming next, to complicated to ever be prepared. Far to complicated to ever have any idea of right and wrong. Much to complicated to get a grip on any kind of reality beyond this moment. More complicated then a map of a foreign city missing a compass and a scale. Eons more complicated then any trivial act of reading and understanding every word of the United States Constitution or the original Old Testament. Life is uber more complicated then anything that one may encounter in daily life. So, why don't we just sit back and tell each other about it.

Yield Right Of Way

I've been guilty of not letting go of a moment, a memory when I am nothing but right. Moments when time would have been better spent gracefully forgetting the discussion entirely and moving on with the day. Sometimes people have to give up the fight that they know is true and right for something bigger, another person's feelings. This acknowledgement of another individual shows a level of caring that means way more than any justification one could recieve from being right. Sometimes the only way to truely show that you care for someone other than yourself is to yeild the right of way.

Ohhh Mother

I came home after work on Sunday night and my mom was watching the news and getting ready for bed, she looked like she was excited and like she had news to tell but was deciding whether or not to say it out loud. She finally started to tell me that she had nominated me for some 'student of the week' thing on the Fox 7 news channel and that I had actually won. I busted out laughing and then she went on to say that it had been on the news earlier in the day and she hadn't been able to see it. "Somebody should have banged on the house!" is what she had to say about it.

What Would The World Be

If there was nothing to fear?

If every person in the world smiled together for just one minute?

If people slept for just one hour more everyday?

If there were more chances to see the sun set and rise?

If we could all just go?

If we could see the wonders and find our own?

If everyone knew their 'God' on a personal level?

If what we believed when we were young could still be true?

If summer lasted forever?

If people never wanted to lie?

If we had been raised differently?

If life had taught us differently?

What would the world be????

All the preparation you've done will finally pay off.

All the books that we would have loved,

All the homework that never really got done,

All the papers that could have been better,

All the hours that could be spent elsewhere,

All the laughs that marked everyday,

All the games that we loved to play,

All the times that we won't remember,

All the friends and enemies,

All the teachers of all the classes,

All the days that turned into nights,

All the first and last days,

All the tests that were prayed over,

All the people that we didn't really know,

All the choices that we live through,

All the fun we let ourselves have,

All the chances that seemed small,

All the times we lost our voices yelling,

All the little joys we found,

All the realizations we'd like to forget,

All the times we had to be a grown up,

All the seconds that formed leaders,

All the seconds that formed failures,

All the seconds that formed futures,

Are all just memories now,

All just part of the times before,

All part of the life before graduation,

All part of the preparation.

Love!

I didn't write this, but when I read it I wish I had:

Remember when you thought boys had cooties...when friends were new, dreams were un-shattered and worries few...when recess was too short and life was too long...decisions came easily without need to belong...when storks delivered the babies and passions weren't so strong...friendships were un-broken...right was right, and wrong was wrong...when bad things didn't happen...when only skinned knees brought tears and the night light in it's socket quieted all our fears...when farewell meant just for summer and real friends didn't part...the fun went on forever and never left a broken heart.