Positives

Today something happened.

Well of course, many things happened today, but I mean something special.

  My parents told me to clean my room, so I cleaned my bathroom, and then my mom came and asked me if I knew where our DVD set of Downton Abbey Season Two was.  (She was looking around my room as though she suspected that I had maliciously hidden it in there somewhere). I didn't know, so we searched for a while. My dad was busy grooming our dog amidst a floating cloud of white hair. I busied myself by singing, facebooking, homeworking, and searching for Downton Abbey. By this time my mom was really going crazy looking for Downton Abbey, and my dad was really going crazy trying to wrestle the dog in the middle of this sea of hair. Our other dog was barking (probably at nothing, because he is losing his sight and hearing, and he's always been stupid to begin with), and my mom was slamming around the house asking me if I'd loaned Downton Abbey to any of my friends, at the same time calling all of her friends asking if they had it.
  My dad yelled for my mom to come hold the dog down because it had tried to bite him. He told me bluntly, "You can go." as I stood in the doorway.

Finally, they left to run an errand.

 I peacefully made my lunch, singing my lungs out as I always do when there is no one around to complain about it. Then they came back. My mom started searching and my dad started grooming and I retired to the shower before anyone could tell me to do something.

And then, after some more searching and cleaning my room, I sat down at this computer. What shall I write about? I thought.


And that is when it happened.

I looked down at my floor (which should probably be vacuumed today) and saw something shiny.

  It is a tiny diamond bead. Nothing expensive, or even beautiful. In fact, it's probably from Walmart. But its bright twinkle made me smile, and reminded me of something very important:

Too often we get so caught up in the negatives of life that we forget to look for positives. The sun is shining, I have a new pink scarf, and there's a sparkly bead on my messy floor. Positives.

Yes, my parents are driving me insane today, but they do love me very much and I do love them. Yes, Downton Abbey may be lost forever, but it probably won't be. Yes, I hate dogs.

Yes. I hate dogs.

The End.