I was walking around the streets. It was a warm sunny
day in the middle of August. It was a beautiful day, but I didn’t really notice
because my thoughts were on something else. Negative thoughts. Suddenly the day
wasn’t that beautiful and everything just seemed to bore me, and the words
‘what ever’ kept popping up inside my head. But who was I to walk around and be
negative. There might be people in the world who has bigger problems than
me. Is it even okay for me to be negative because of my small everyday
problems? I don’t know. But either way, up lifted I my head. I saw all
the little birds, tweeting, and flying around. They looked happy. I saw happy
parents walking around with their children, smiling. The sun was warming
my skin and I could smell the waffles from inside the ice-cream shop. I could
feel the joy and happiness starting to grow in me. And then … I felt it on
my right shoulder. I turned my head and looked at it. A bird had shitted on
me. Thursday, February 9, 2017
Surprise
I was walking around the streets. It was a warm sunny
day in the middle of August. It was a beautiful day, but I didn’t really notice
because my thoughts were on something else. Negative thoughts. Suddenly the day
wasn’t that beautiful and everything just seemed to bore me, and the words
‘what ever’ kept popping up inside my head. But who was I to walk around and be
negative. There might be people in the world who has bigger problems than
me. Is it even okay for me to be negative because of my small everyday
problems? I don’t know. But either way, up lifted I my head. I saw all
the little birds, tweeting, and flying around. They looked happy. I saw happy
parents walking around with their children, smiling. The sun was warming
my skin and I could smell the waffles from inside the ice-cream shop. I could
feel the joy and happiness starting to grow in me. And then … I felt it on
my right shoulder. I turned my head and looked at it. A bird had shitted on
me. 
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I like the structure and your ending is a great punctuation to the positive emotions. A good example of being melancholic without going full-blown Shakespeare and thus keeping grounded and relatable.
ReplyDeleteThe ending gave me a good chuckle. This is life in a nutshell, is it not? When you finally try your hardest to think positive and be optimistic as everyone requests... a bird takes a dumb on your shoulder. You got me, Julie, this is awesome.
ReplyDeleteBird shit means good luck... BTW, to shit is an irregular verb!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the wry irony of the piece, so although the story elements are minimal, the narrator is well-drawn.
The backwards phrase is slightly awkward to work with, and is one of many reversed phrases that sound a bit like Master Yoda.
I like your little story, and I think it is relatable in the way that we can all recognize being overwhelmed with negative thoughts and then when we try to think and be positive something bad happens, so life just seems to suck.
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