Things to Look Forward to
- from Anastasia Grigoryeva
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- Delaware Valley High School
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It's often that people feel that they have nothing to look forward to; people that think about taking their own lives, feeling hopeless; people who feel like their lives have amounted to nothing; people who have lost so much and think there's no good left in life.
Things don't have to be grand and significant to mean something. Look forward to the daily sunsets and sunrises, the smell of freshly mowed grass, the sound of babies laughing and then the laughing "train" that usually follows from others around them, your favorite movies, new movies being released, old re-runs of favorite shows and episodes, new and old books, bubble baths, sight-seeing, exploring new places (whether it'd be in your neighborhood or overseas), meeting up with old friends, meeting new friends, the smells of your favorite food, rain after a couple days of beating sun...
If we don't sit back and appreciate the little things in life, or the hardships in life, then we will never truly being to appreciate the everyday things. As Stephenie Meyer said, "Without the dark, we'd never see the stars."