my love letter to life

I've always had an optimistic view of the world around me. I'm serious. Even as a child I always thought of the most positive outcome I could before the worst came to mind. I didn't know what this characteristic was until someone pointed it out in the question, "How are you so optimistic?" Optimistic? At the ripe time of grade four I questioned what the meaning of that word mean't. So of course I had to look up the meaning on my tablet, and from then on, my life was changed. Changed. From then on, optimism followed me in every footstep and every conversation and every thought I have ever had up until this very moment and moment on. I believe at some point in everyone's life they will have a phase where they go straight to every negative possibility they feel is possible, whether that phase spans from only a few weeks or to a few months or to a few years or for a lifetime. Optimism is the buoyancy in a body of water with no salt. (That more than likely doesn't make sense but I am going to include it in this post anyways!)

Recently California has been getting weekly rain and yucky storms. I enjoy the rain, I really do, but I don't like the rain when I don't get doses of sunlight along with it. On the optimistic side, the dry tan hills of California turn a lovely shade of green, so, it makes up for the dreary gray clouds in the sky. Another thing that makes up for the stormy sky is the rainbows that stop by for a visit. Have you ever Googled how a rainbow forms in the sky? You will probably get results that say something along these lines: A rainbow will book a flight, pack it's luggage, wave to everyone on the ground while up in the sky in the plane, then the moment it lands at it's destination, it will book a flight back home to Rainbow Town; I'm joking. (My joke more than likely doesn't make sense, but again, I am going to include it in this post anyways!) Jokes aside, rainbows forming in the sky is such a fascinating concept. Here is the National Geographic Society overview on how rainbows form: "When sunlight hits a rain droplet, some of the light is reflected. The electromagnetic spectrum is made of light with many different wavelengths, and each is reflected at a different angle. Thus, spectrum is separated, producing a rainbow." The more you know!

During my early middle school years, I fell in love with the movie, and book, The Outsiders by:

S. E. Hinton. Along with my love for the movie and the book, I fell in love with the meaning behind the story, the quotes and characteristics that give the story meaning, and the poems that emphasize the meaning behind the quotes and the story as a whole. Robert Frost, one of my favorite poets, emphasized the meaning most through his poem, Nothing Gold Can Stay. If you have never heard this poem, one, that makes me sad, and two, I am going to quote it for you so you can be introduced to the poetic words of the one and only, Robert Frost.

Nothing Gold Can Stay:

Nature’s first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf’s a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

Here is my take on this poem. We spend so much of our life holding onto the things around us, whether that be a friendship, a relationship, or our childhood blanket (blankie) and childhood stuffed animal, etc. that we loose track of the other special things in our life. The nature of life and the beauty around us is destined to fade away in a lissom-like manner and no matter what we do, nothing gold can stay. Why should we spend our lives focused on the past or the future when all we truly have is the present? Note that life is so much bigger than any little thing you are fixated on. Grow as a person to live beyond what you can't control. If you are questioning if something is right for you, just know you will already have your answer. Strive to find all the joy and all of the love in life even if it is getting out of bed and taking a sip of water just to lay back down and go back to sleep. Sometimes the smallest things can be the biggest victories.

with love,

em 𓇼