Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Life likes to laugh

Some people may think this title seems a little bit funny, and that is how I want it. I'm in a class right now and I was asked what makes my writing stand out... and I would have to say my writing tends to show the reality of a person and their story. In my eyes though, I believe reality involves humor. My own life is a pretty decent testament to life exuding hilarity. When I was a child I was considered quite the klutz. My dad, like many other fathers of young klutzy kids, often said that I could trip over a dust bunny, and I often did. But as I got older, these klutzy moments ended up transforming into something pretty interesting, and quite humorous to any who witnessed these moments. My family and I still refer to these moments as 'Movie Moments' because so many of these ridiculous things just couldn't happen in real life.

One of these moments that has always stood out, even over ten years later, is when I was raking leaves one day when I was 11-years-old so I could earn money to go to the newest Harry Potter movie. It was late October, and getting pretty cold though we had yet to have our first snow yet in Lewistown, MT. I felt tiredness overwhelm me as I lazily pulled the big blue garbage can with wheels along the grassy lawn, and I decided not to close it in-between putting leaves in any longer. I would rake and pull, rake and pull, when all of a sudden the garbage can surprised me! It began to keep moving, though my hand still held its handle tight, and I felt it move down, down, down to the ground. Before I knew it, I was inside the garbage can looking out to the world wondering how I had managed. I was thankful that no one had seen my little trash-can moment, and said to myself, "Well at least this can't get any worse." And as those words left my lips, I remembered that my mom had thrown out two metal chairs that day, and suddenly those chairs fell on my head.

I went inside with leaves strewn throughout my hair, and a bump rising on my head, and a shocked expression on my face as I go to mom and say, "Mom..."

She looked at me with a curious look before crossing her arms and said, "What happened this time?"

When your mom can ask that question with a straight face, you know you are a klutz! This is just one of my many ridiculous moments, and some of them really are quite unbelievable. I can't even tell you how many times people have told me to write my autobiography or a movie about my life. But why does any of this matter anyways? Well, I just wanted to remind you all that in those moments where we want to cry because we are embarrassed, remember that later you can look back and smile.

There is more

I have definitely lived an incredible life up to this point, and even though I am young, I can truly say that already I feel like my life is a full life. I think in general people meet me and think that I am just always overly optimistic and that nothing can ever get me down. People almost act as though I am impervious to the sadness in this world... well that is just wrong. The thing about me is that I don't see the point in focusing on the bad, and I always want to believe the best even in hard situations. Sometimes people judge me because of this quality and try to take me down, but why? Because I see the world in a happier way? Why can't we all look at life from a new perspective?

I believe that we decide the quality of life we lead, and that is beyond how much money we make or how big our houses are. I believe that we choose whether we live a happy life or not. So choose to live a happy life!