DEAR KIDDO...

Hello my child. I am your mother. I am awesome, like seriously. I understand that sometimes I don't seem awesome, but if you look past all the chaos you will see my awesomeness. I really hope that you are successful in life. I want you to do whatever you want. Whether you want to be a bar tender, or a lawyer. It is all up to you. If you do whatever you want, you will achieve the awesomeness that I have achieved. I also want you to feel free in your life. There is nothing worse than feeling like you're in a cage. If you want a spouse, find one that you can be happy with. Of course, not all marriages are entirely perfect. But if you choose to get married, don't just settle for someone you kindof like, you'll just feel trapped and unhappy. Don't over endulge in material things. You'll eventually understand that they don't really matter. Nobody really cares if you have fancy pancy phone or just a regular phone that is used for calling people. Of course, if you like something fancy pancy find a way to save for it and still have money left over for other things. Be careful when approaching strange dogs and don't drive too fast in the winter when there is ice on the road. You'll fly off the road, crash into a phone pole and die. Live life to the fullest, but just because life is short doesn't mean you should go around doing things that will easily kill you.

FEAR

I feared everything when I was little. I was extremely gullible and believed EVERYTHING my siblings told me. If they told me there was a big poisonous wolf spider in my hair, I would believe them. Or if I didn't believe them, they would pursuade me until I did and started to cry. I think that made me afraid of spiders for the longest time. I'm not afraid of them anymore though.

I was also afraid of the upstairs bathroom at Danvers. This was in fifth grade, so I was a little older. I remember thinking of that bathroom as a dungeon. A big metal thing hung on the ceiling, sometimes making a quiet ticking noise or banging noise. With the magnificent silence, every soun seemed amplified by 1000. Everytime I went to the bathroom, I tried to wash my hands afterwards but sometimes it was just too scary(Gross, I know) But when you're running, no, sprinting out of the bathroom to get rid of that murderous man hiding in the big metal thing that hung from the ceiling. Of course, it was always wise to go to the bathroom in groups.

What is the definition of a poem?

I'm not really sure how to explain what poem is. Sometimes they rhyme sometimes they don't. Sometimes they help you understand life, or get through life. Music is poetry, well the lyric are. A lot of people use music to get through life. Of course poems can be about love. They can be about a guy who loves a girl or vise versa. Sometimes they are just to convey a message. Sometimes just to tell people how they are feeling, or a lesson the author feels people should know. Sometimes poetry is purely entertainment. Sometimes people use it to vent. My cousin wrote a ton of really sad poems about her mom. Her mom is really cool so I don't know why she wrote them.