When you step outside on your porch on a sunny yet rainy day, do you think of a new day or an old day, a happy day or a sad day, or do you feel like one tiny speak out of billions just sitting, staring and not caring how the day rolls along. Your like a tree that had its ups and downs but keeps growing no matter how hard it is to do. You keep gaining knowledge and experience even though bad and good, hard and easy, dry or wet. It’s a tough grueling world that is unforgiving yet gives you hope and makes you believe that anything and everything is possible.
Love is strong, but yet an undefined word yet we think we know what it is. We think we know the definition but love can be described in so many ways that no two people have the same definition. When Johnny gave the flowers to Francie when he was already dead, he had something in mind. That would be considered love. But the difference is he had a certain thought in mind when he bought those roses for Francie. It was that thought that he put into it is what made it love.
Think of yourself as a tree. You need things to survive, but you also need things to succeed. You start as a seed but start to sprout into a tree. You grow bigger and bigger along the way. But what do you gain. Do you gain satisfaction? What we don’t seem to see as we grow up is the world that is growing around us. There are many things that happen the way that we want them, and don’t want them but the thing is, we always pay attention to the things that don’t go our way. Francie really paid attention to when Johnny died but she didn’t pay attention to when she got a job, or got to go to a different school when she wanted to. We take for granted what we do have, but always find a way to complain about the things that we don’t have.
Believe is a very powerful, yet costly word. You need to have thick skin, and perseverance to keep a belief for a long time. When Francie and Neeley want one certain Christmas tree, they knew that the only way to get it was to have it thrown at them and they would have to stay standing to get it. They stayed standing not just by their strength, or their will power, but they also believed that they could. If they would have went into that battle thinking that they were going to lose, they probably would have. When they say “It’s half heart, half body,” they mean it. It’s not by your strength or your mind that people judge you by, but by how big of a heart and soul you have.
In the shift from innocence to experience, many things happen including mind, body, and soul. Many people would say the first thing you need for success is a good mind but if you don’t have a love, or believe in the thing you are trying to step up to, you will never succeed the way you wanted to.
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