with your head up and your eyes closed

Im graduation.
ok, not officially, but i've put in my four years.
im old. im sappy and sentimental. for the past few months or so, ive been realizing how close graduation and growing up actually is, and as a response, im not ready. so ive been trying to grab every experience i can and savor it and get every drop of enjoyment i can out of it. what ive discovered is that its the little things, really. not the big things. its just little everyday things that i have had for three years while living in this house, or for my whole life since i was 5 and a student, that i have not really paid attention to at all.
and so in all me emotional fervor, i need to document a few things that i have realized that i love, and if i only pay attention to them, they really add a lot of quality to my life:

-when i wake up in the morning, the sunlight shines in my window and casts a really pretty light on my pink walls. my room is the most gorgeous room i have ever seen, especially in the morning : )
-since i live with 8 girls that i am totally comfortable with, i can sing as loud as i want anytime i want. they kind of expect it.
-running without headphones and music so i can hear my steps, my breathing, and whats going on in the neighborhoods i run through. i also really like running in the summer and looking at all the houses with fresh cut, green yards, and the doors open.
-the smell of outside, especially after it rains.
-the sound of water. water outside like rain, streams, random water that springs up in the middle of your court. not like water from a faucet.
-swinging with my eyes closed and leaning back with my feet straight out in the air. especially when i open my eyes and see a clear blue sky.
-riding a bike at night with my hair down.

i know. its cheesy and beginning to sound like a cheesy song. but what ive decided is that things are cheesy because they are cliche, and things become cliche because they are true for so many people. so.

as usual, copeland has provided a soundtrack for my life:

sing
with your head up
with your eyes closed
not because you love the song
because you love to sing
because you love to sing


do it. i did, and its awesome : )

i love ju.