Alive.

 What I Stay Alive For:

• road trips
• car karaoke
• the color green
• hanging plants
• the feeling of happiness so intense it makes you burst out laughing
• omelettes
• lo-main noodles
•  art
• overly decorated rooms
• boys with goofy grins and pretty eyes
• "ur mom" jokes
• my car
• music
• summer camps 
• friends that feel like home, even when far away
• playing ukulele until my fingers callus
• vinyls
• that one Cage The Elephant album (you know the one)
• stained glass
• sunlight
• rosaries and their promise
• disposable cameras
• peace signs
• early morning showers
• laying around all day with someone I love
• freckles (especially when you don't notice them until close up)
• kisses (forehead, cheek, butterfly, Eskimo, french, all of them)
• hugs
• blue ras calypso lemonade
• gas station slushies
• double decker hammocks
• storms
• the #4
• star gazing
• sunsets on backroads
• super donuts
• football games and after parties
• making a huge deal out of school dances
• cabins
• long phone calls
• fringed shirts
• flare jeans
• lots of jewelery
• string hair wraps and braids
• positive people
• unexpected visits
• round glasses
• bandannas
• claw clips
• baja hoodies
• long skirts
• cheesecake
• local restaurants
• ice cream
• brown eyes in the sun
• steamy bathroom mirrors or foggy car windows
• turtles
• cats
• my family
• foggy mornings
• Early classes
• laughing until you cry
• people who feel good to be around
• those songs that flip earbuds so it sounds like they're going straight through your brain

and so much more. Find beauty purpose in the little things. Love is little. Life is little. Live it little, friends.

-Ava