Impressions

I really don't feel like doing homework yet. So why not write for a while? (I can't think of any reason not too anyways,lol) Last night I had NYSSMA around 8:15, and , I'm really curious to see what my scores will be. What a day it is outside. Cold, a strange gray hue, and peculiarly windy. I wonder if its going to rain. It probably will. But who knows. Stranger things have happened. All I know is, the clouds and sky give me an impression that it might rain.

Impressions are a pretty interesting thing, arent they?Each and Everyday we are bombarded with so many impressions from different sources: events, the media, and, what I feel to be most important, actually, people. Sometimes I don't think that we completely realize how often and profoundly our lives are effected. Or, conversely, how we can impact the lives of others. Sometimes a person leaves on us a negative impression- onset forth on us to make us stronger throughout our struggles with the individual. Sometimes, though, people can have such a positive effect on us- From these people we can learn from, about life and sometimes can even make us look beyond ourselves and push us in a way to things that we aren't even sure we can accomplish at first. These impressions are from people who will always stick out in our memory, are a part of us as these people leave in us footprints that can't be washed away. I'm sure everyone in their lives has atleast one person (or, maybe even a few) in their lives. Maybe its a close friend, a great teacher, or family member. Someone who inspires or believes in us. The heart of this idea, is ourselves. Little do they know how much they have impacted our lives, these impressions are within each and every one of us. You might not know it, but we don't realize how much we can influence others every single day. It can be something as simple as a smile that can make all the difference in the world. Everyone has the power to make a difference, because, just as silently as others are positively impacting and inspiring our own lives, we are impacting and inspiring the lives of others.....

~Melissa