Life Sure Is Grand

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The sun gloriously shining above our heads; the most luscious of green leaves curiously swaying out and about with the swift commands of the wind; the sea just sparkling blue and green and maybe even both with its beauty; you and your friends or your family just hanging out and laughing with mirth…Maybe there are tears just threatening to fall with all this joy, who knows? All you know is, summer has begun and just to rhyme and snicker about later, it’s going to be a whole lot of fun.
You’re fresh out of school, got this paper in your hands, a few awards, and you think your parents are proud. They’re smiling at you anyway.
At one point your dad turned around and said, “You alright there?” And you just nod and grin because if your interior emotions were showing on the outside people might think you were crazy and just not right in the head. You think you wouldn’t care anyway; I’m rejoicing here, and is that in the slightest bit wrong?
Everything is suddenly ten times funnier now and everyone is smiling from what you can see. And why not? It’s summer, and like Phineas and Ferb you’re going to make yours extraordinary. Not to their extent of course—what kind of kid can make a rollercoaster in just one afternoon?—but something just as good. You’re going to have fun, and nothing else. It’s practically a rule in your head now.
You’re happy, you’re giddy, and you’re excited. This year is turning out great so far and you plan to keep it that way. It doesn’t matter if the world is going to end before you can even touch your Christmas presents, even though it hurts if that’s true. Your last year on this marvelous walk on Earth was a blast and the memories are enough. You plan to go down with a simple “Well, that was marvelous folks. But I have to go now, have a good day,” like those Brits on TV. It would be brilliant if you did anyway.
The bookworms would get what they want too; you hear there’s going to be a whole lot of new books coming out before the possible Armageddon. Speaking of books, you got this one by Stephen King. They say it’s a great horror novel on vampires, and your parents say the movie was terrifying. You’ve decided to like it since.
It’s called ‘Salem’s Lot, and you forget who, but there was this one quote you feel fits your situation perfectly. What was it? Oh, right.
“Life sure is grand.”   

(Written by my 11 year old daughter, Jean Dorothy Andrada)

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