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Spring Break rambling
It’s Spring Break. I promise you I have negative ability to focus today (Friday), so this is going to be a rambling train of thought in my head as I drifted off in class.
My sister and I used to split up the food that we bought like troops during the war. Three chocolate flavored Rice Krispies for you, and three for me. Actually, I can trade you a chocolate flavored one for a marshmallow flavored one. We used to relish going grocery shopping with the grownups, because as pre-teens, what much else is there to do?
These days, it’s been a few months since I went shopping for groceries. In the midst of life, I have delegated that responsibility solely to my parents and I just walk in and out of the kitchen grabbing what I can find.
Our world, back then, was simple and confined; it stretched only as far as we could travel for two hours or so on the highway. That was the universe that we knew. Continue reading
How to Take a Successful Bubble Bath (Playlist Included!)
Everyone hates on materialists, but a bubble bath is one aspect of a materialist’s obsessions that I promise will only benefit you. Not that everyone should take bubble baths every day, but taking a bubble bath just once will change your life…though indirectly, probably. Continue reading
What Happens As Time Passes
Coupons expire.
Food molds.
Hair grows.
Tea gets cold.
A song ends, and a new one starts.
Children grow up.
People age.
Dust gathers.
Seasons change.
Paint dries, and
Paint chips.
Records are broken,
Goals accomplished.
A pen runs out of ink,
The earth revolves around the sun.
People fall in and out of love,
Opportunities disappear and others open up.
A plant lives
A plant dies.
New ways to save humanity
Are conceptualized.
Fashion trends
Go out of style.
Not everything
Is entirely worthwhile.
Paper turns yellow.
A friendship is formed.
New ways to destroy humanity
Are brainstormed.
Someone grows impatient,
A lightbulb burns out.
Wrinkles form
Without a doubt.
Priorities are reevaluated.
Progress happens.
A body decomposes.
A relationship ends.
Revolutions occur
Movements fail.
Life happens.
Love prevails.
Catherine Zhang 