LoViNg KiNdNeSs

So around Valentine's Day, my English teacher asked everyone to bring in a poem to share with the class. This assignment was unique because she didn't want a lovey dovey or mushy poem. I couldn't find any that I liked so I just decided to write one. I've never been too big on sharing my own poems with bunches of people, but I figured that I was almost done with high school and I frankly didn't care if anyone thought my poem was stupid. So I just wrote one to share with the class. Here it is. Enjoy :)


loving kindness

most roses are Red, but
some can be Pink,
some poems have meanings, that
will make you think.
but now here is a poem, that’s
both Simple and Smart,
all Gifts on this day, should
come from the Heart.

now here is a day, that
i really quite like.
a day to step back, take
a look at your Life.
take a look at yourself, and
all of your Friends,
ask who needs help, which
friendship needs Mends?

if your answer is ‘None,’ then
be on your way,
considered a Fool, with
no friends on this day.
but if you can Look, and
see someone in Need,
then get to Work! and
do your good deed.

for Valentine’s Day, is
all about love,
the gifts from the Heart, all
come from Above.
there can always be found, a
friend who needs you,
to be their real friend: Helpful,
Prayerful, Kind and True.

Laney Galbraith

S-M-i-L-E :D

I love smiling.

No, seriously.

I LOVE smiling.

For the past couple of weeks I've awoken each morning not feeling my best. Of course, by saying "not feeling my best," I simply mean to say that I felt like a lazy loser that might as well have just dropped from the sky with no meaning and no purpose in life. When I wake up feeling that way, it just seems that nothing goes my way. It seems that nothing can make me happy. Then I realized, that's just it: NOTHING can make me happy. Ha the only thing that can make me happy is me. Just me. It doesn't matter that I'm not in school and I don't have a job. I have an amazing family, a more than adequate home, a healthy car, and a knowledge that there is a divine, predetermined plan that has been set apart for just me. I start school in the fall, and I start my new job this upcoming Monday. I just graduated from high school and I get to start my life as an adult, beginning to explore the paths that will show me who I am supposed to be. What could be better than that?

I am so blessed to be where I'm at in my life. It truly is a blessing to be who I am and have so many chances and choices before me. What an amazing time and place to be living. I get to receive an education, see people I love every day, and best yet, I get to choose my life. I get to wake up every morning, and CHOOSE what I want to be. So why, when given such an amazing opportunity, would I ever, ever choose to not smile, or to not be happy. It just seems ridiculous that anyone with an opportunistic life like mine, would choose to do anything but smile. So, I'm going to smile :D I hope that my smile can maybe help others to smile as well.

Please, please...smile.