This is the first of my 5 THINGS post series. I
won't be posting them one after another, but it will be a theme I'll
use over the year.
ONE: People
Smiling
people. Strangers. Watching cute couples in public, adorable kids,
people smiling as they read a book...oblivious to the world around them,
pregnant women sitting somewhere and eating random food, just people
holding hands, laughing, dancing...living.
People
TWO: Music
People
going to and fro with earphones trailing from their ears, especially
the people who put on in and leave the other one hanging down and it
swings as they walk. They people who start mouthing the words to a song,
though they're trying not to sing along in public. People who hear
their favorite song come on the PA system in a coffee shop and their
whole body seems to brighten and they try and contain their love of the
song but pretty soon they're swaying happily in line and its all they
can do to keep from dancing. When cars pull up beside you as a light and
you can hear their radio and you try and figure out what song they're
listening to and who they are. When your favorite song comes on and you
feel alive.
Music
THREE: Books
Paper backs fresh from the
bookshop with their glossy covers, crisp pages,
stiff spines, and oh so
heavenly new-book-smell! Old dusty books in dimly lit
bookshops that
smell of ages and history and dust. Bright picture books, the ones with
beautiful illustrations, and smiling children peeking around the cover.
Little girls in libraries carrying stacks of books taller they they
are. Teenage boys sitting on a park bench or lounging on stone steps,
their entire focus on the book in front of them, oblivious to the world.
College age girls spilling out of the doors of a bookshop, coffee and
bags of new books in their hands, their laughter carrying in the air.
How there is a book for everyone, if they care to look.
Books
FOUR: Rain
How
it is both calming and energizing. Either you want to curl up with a
book and a cup of blackberry tea or you want to run and dance and you
end up laughing in the kitchen ans you dance and slid around in your
socks while muffins bake in the oven behind you. People rushing to and
fro with umbrellas. Have you ever looked down on a sidewalk on a rainy
day? People SHARING umbrellas or casting them off all together to run
and dance in the rain. Racing and spinning around and around and around in the rain
with your friends, laughing and not even caring who sees you.
Rain
FIVE: Blogging
The
awesome community, people coming together and helping each other and
making new friends. Tags, Collab Posts, bonding over favorite shows and
books. Logging into your account and seeing a new comment. Beauty and lifestyle bloggers, book and writing bloggers, fandom bloggers...
Blogging
-Natasha Hart-
