1. Trees. It was something about the trees.
The way they swayed with the wind in
unison. The way they shaded the area around them. The sounds of their leaves in the
wind and the creaks from the branches as they sway, The trees were making a
statement that I just couldn't understand.
2. He ordered his regular breakfast. Two eggs sunnyside up, hash browns, and two
strips of bacon. He continued to look at the menu wondering if this would be the day
he added something new. This was also part of the routine. A few seconds of
hesitation to see if something else would be added to the order before demuring and
saying that would be all. It was the same exact meal that he had ordered every day
for the past two years.
3. She had been told time and time again that the most important steps were the first
and the last. It was something that she carried within her in everything she did, but
then he showed up and disrupted everything. He told her that she had it wrong. The
first step wasn't the most important. The last step wasn't the most important. It was
the next step that was the most important.
4. "It doesn't take much to touch someone's heart," Daisy said with a smile on her face.
"It's often just the little things you do that can change a person's day for the better."
Daisy truly believed this to be the way the world worked, but she didn't understand
that she was merely a robot that had been programmed to believe this.
5. One foot in front of the other, One more step, and then one more. Jack's only
thoughts were to keep moving no matter how much his body screamed to stop and
rest. He's lost almost all his energy and his entire body ached beyond belief, but he
forced himself to take another step. Then another. And then one more.
6. The water rush down the wash and into the slot canyon below. Two hikers had
started the day to sunny weather without a cloud in the sky, but they hadn't thought
to check the weather north of the canyon. Huge thunderstorms had brought a deluge
o rain and produced flash floods heading their way. The two hikers had no idea what
was coming.
7. “Ingredients for life,” said the backside of the truck. They mean food, but really food
is only 1 ingredient of life. Life has so many more ingredients such as pain, happiness,
laughter, joy, tears, and smiles. Life also has hard work, easy play, sleepless nights,
and sunbathing by the ocean. Love, hatred, envy, self-assurance, and fear could be
just down aisle 3 ready to be bought when needed. How I wish I could pull
ingredients like these off shelves in a store.
8. "Can I get you anything else?" David asked. It was a question he asked a hundred
times a day and he always received the same answer. It had become such an
ingrained part of his daily routine that he had to step back and actively think when
he heard the little girl's reply. Nobody had before answered the question the way
that she did, and David didn't know how he should respond.
9. The time had come for Nancy to say goodbye. She had been dreading this moment
for a good six months, and it had finally arrived despite her best efforts to forestall it.
No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't keep the inevitable from happening. So
the time had come for a normal person to say goodbye and move on. It was at this
moment that Nancy decided not to be a normal person. After all the time and effort
she had expended, she couldn't bring herself to do it.
10. Benny was tired. Not the normal every day tired from a hard day o work. The
exhausted type of tired where you're surprised your body can even move. All he
wanted to do was sit in front of the TV, put his feet up on the coffee table, and drink
a beer. The only issue was that he had forgotten where he lived.
