to feel alive

i think it’s important to feel alive everyday. or at least every once in a while. to do what fuels us.

to experience what we crave.

to wake up early to catch the sunrise. or to stay up watching the stars.

to sit out a window listening to music. to bake cookies at three in the morning. to go outside when the air is just perfect. to run at night.

to read while birds are chirping. to laugh until you can’t talk. or better to make someone else laugh until they can’t talk. to sprint through a field. to walk in the rain.

to cartwheel in a place you normally wouldn’t cartwheel. to be piggybacked across a long hallway. to reach that point where your body is exhausted but your mind is still racing. to blow out a dandelion, feeling so confident that your wish will come true. to make a new friend that you have a strong feeling that they are going to be in your life for a long time. to take a morning walk. to pick flowers.

to go anywhere in a dress.

to execute a plan or achieve a goal you’ve always wanted. to have a conversation where you feel like someone completely understands you. to skateboard around an empty neighborhood. to lay down on a hill.

or better, to roll down a hill. to sit on a roof.

to drive with the windows rolled down on a windy day. to lay in a field.

to hear a compliment that you know you are going to think about for days. or better, to give someone else a compliment and being able to tell by their face that they are going to be thinking about it for days. to see someone you have been missing for a long time. to find a new song that you know you’re about to listen to again immediately once it finishes. these are some things that remind me just how alive i am. i think if we all experience enough of these things, we will feel alive and in love with life everyday.

Madison Rolnick

Living a Lie

The joyous voices color the party

But a hush dumps down my courage. Well-dressed men aware of money

Rambling over bonds and automobiles

Lost in the crowd

Giving the impression of melancholy

Sinking in the restless eye

Awaiting a scandal

No privacy left

No more familiarity

Violent romance attacks the heart

No difference between dishonest and honestly

Swooned by grace

People are careless

Bella Ramirez