It is winter. I know this is not breaking news, but I just wanted to clarify this before I went any further. Winter means that it is cold outside for most of us out there, which means that most of us will try to stay warm for the next couple of months no matter what. I don’t really like the cold because it is unpleasant and involves too much preparation to do normal things. I can pretty much handle any outside weather, but the temperature inside seems to be my biggest problem. The arguments that have ensued over the appropriate temperature in my home are enough to destroy any family. On top of hourly arguments over the temperature is the struggle to be comfortable with the temperature when trying to fall asleep. I go from being too hot to too cold at least 5 times a night. This requires me to get up at ridiculous times of the night to either get/dispose a blanket, turn up/down the heat, or silently weeping until exhaustion puts me to sleep. This is why I hate winter.
-Ruben
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Winter, Winter, go away!
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Living life one day at a time
Monday, May 18th, 2009
People who are much older than I am often remark to me how I should enjoy my youth because in 22 years I will, according to them, look back on these years as the best of my life. And true, there are many things about being young that make it enjoyable. But at the same time, for many youth what we experience now is also the hardest (so far); it is the difficulty of being a young person now that will make our generation.
As for me, I don’t believe it’s good to be constantly in some faze of nostalgia. Why look back on one specific chunk of your life as the “best” when you can expand that your entire life? As lame as this may sound, I really do believe in living life one day at a time, because from my experience, it can be lost at a moment’s notice (if we are so lucky to even have such notice). To live life without hang-ups, even if the circumstances of life tell you otherwise, even if the fear of what may happen sometimes outweighs the desire to live each day to its fullest.
As my parents always tell me, “Don’t obsess over the past; you’re only as old as you feel inside, even if your heart, hips, and knees don’t agree”.
-Allyson