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- Story Listed as: True Life For Teens
- Theme: Family & Friends
- Subject: Poems & Songs
- Published: 10/11/2017
Life for me is a confused blue-green color.
Blue-green like a murky pond, full of life but also death. I don’t know what life would be like without issues or sadness. But all of that is hidden from the outside of my murky pond of a life. All people see is the girl who is full of life, just like the pond, they don't see the decaying leaves at the bottom. My leaves are all mushed up, slimy and gross.
My problems are all different sizes, they can be as small as “Why don't these jeans fit me anymore?” to as big as “Why did my dad decide to leave?” but these issues are mine to be kept at the bottom of my pond. I do this in hopes of them just decaying and disappearing, just like the leaves at the bottom of the pond.
Friendship for me is a confused blue-green color.
I never knew who I was or who I wanted to be. I didn’t know where I wanted to go, all I knew was I wanted to be with my best friend. I wanted to spend hours talking about nothing and everything. I didn’t care as long as I was with her. I was safe, happy, comfortable with her. Everything was okay and normal until our friendship turned blue-green.
We began to be two different people, we changed completely. We had a hard time hanging out with the same people, eating the same food, listening to the same music. Literally everything we once had in common had changed. I fought a constant battle, a war to keep this friendship together, but nothing worked, it just crashed and burned.
Once again I had been left behind and alone wondering if my bestfriend would one day return to me instead of her perfect boyfriend who never did anything wrong, even when he did a simple sorry would fix it. If it were me making these mistakes I would be shunned, turned away from and ridiculed.
Now it is about a year after the change happened and she has moved on but here I am writing a story about the girl who is gone. The girl who I never want to see again because, well, she isn't the same person that I once knew, she is the complete invert of her old self.
My heart is a confused blue-green color.
My heart's emotions are like blue-green taffy pulled, mixed and repulled. They get messed with daily. Isn’t anyone else’s fault though, it's just me. Sometimes these feelings are just in my head, other times they feel like they are all around in everything I do. Sometimes something as little as someone breathing too loud, or more annoying things like why can’t the people of the world all live in peace and harmony. These things bother me, they sneak up on me, like a ghosts they pop up out of nowhere and scare me and show me I can't do anything about them.
Finally the world is confused and blue-green.
No one really knows what they are doing with anything they just follow along with what everyone else is doing not really paying any attention to anything. And that’s where the earth turns blue-green.
Some of us are like little sheep who follow their leader to and fro not really caring. Then there are the few of us who lead, most are great and empowering leaders, but then we have the bad ones who manipulate their followers into evil.
Life for me is a confused blue-green color.
blue-green(alyson scheidt)
Life for me is a confused blue-green color.
Blue-green like a murky pond, full of life but also death. I don’t know what life would be like without issues or sadness. But all of that is hidden from the outside of my murky pond of a life. All people see is the girl who is full of life, just like the pond, they don't see the decaying leaves at the bottom. My leaves are all mushed up, slimy and gross.
My problems are all different sizes, they can be as small as “Why don't these jeans fit me anymore?” to as big as “Why did my dad decide to leave?” but these issues are mine to be kept at the bottom of my pond. I do this in hopes of them just decaying and disappearing, just like the leaves at the bottom of the pond.
Friendship for me is a confused blue-green color.
I never knew who I was or who I wanted to be. I didn’t know where I wanted to go, all I knew was I wanted to be with my best friend. I wanted to spend hours talking about nothing and everything. I didn’t care as long as I was with her. I was safe, happy, comfortable with her. Everything was okay and normal until our friendship turned blue-green.
We began to be two different people, we changed completely. We had a hard time hanging out with the same people, eating the same food, listening to the same music. Literally everything we once had in common had changed. I fought a constant battle, a war to keep this friendship together, but nothing worked, it just crashed and burned.
Once again I had been left behind and alone wondering if my bestfriend would one day return to me instead of her perfect boyfriend who never did anything wrong, even when he did a simple sorry would fix it. If it were me making these mistakes I would be shunned, turned away from and ridiculed.
Now it is about a year after the change happened and she has moved on but here I am writing a story about the girl who is gone. The girl who I never want to see again because, well, she isn't the same person that I once knew, she is the complete invert of her old self.
My heart is a confused blue-green color.
My heart's emotions are like blue-green taffy pulled, mixed and repulled. They get messed with daily. Isn’t anyone else’s fault though, it's just me. Sometimes these feelings are just in my head, other times they feel like they are all around in everything I do. Sometimes something as little as someone breathing too loud, or more annoying things like why can’t the people of the world all live in peace and harmony. These things bother me, they sneak up on me, like a ghosts they pop up out of nowhere and scare me and show me I can't do anything about them.
Finally the world is confused and blue-green.
No one really knows what they are doing with anything they just follow along with what everyone else is doing not really paying any attention to anything. And that’s where the earth turns blue-green.
Some of us are like little sheep who follow their leader to and fro not really caring. Then there are the few of us who lead, most are great and empowering leaders, but then we have the bad ones who manipulate their followers into evil.
Life for me is a confused blue-green color.
JD
10/11/2018I hope that the murky blue-green colors you were feeling when you wrote this story eventually become much more clear and lovely. Life can be hard and confusing sometimes, and I think it can be cathartic to share our feelings about things that are difficult with others. THANK YOU for sharing your real life feelings with us, Alyson. Congratulations on being selected as the Short Story STAR of the Week! : )
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Kevin Hughes
10/09/2018Alyson,
Beautifully written, a world colored by confusion as you grow and learn- is the path most of us take. You touched on one of Life's toughest passages in a way that many folks will recognize.
You earned StoryStar of the week.
Smiles, Kevin
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