June: Floating in a Pool

Recently have been lacking ideas and rather than creating I have been consuming on social media which is a big issue for me. I’m in 9,052 words in my book which it isn’t bad BUT it’s more like medium. But, how are you? Are you reading books? How did your week go? Yesterday I went to a birthday celebration which at the beginning was awkward, there was a big pool, and at the beginning I didn’t want to go in so I read my book. After maybe 15 minutes of seeing people splash water all over the place I went in with borrowed clothing (since I didn’t know we could go into the pool). I wasn’t by myself but my whole family came with me to the celebration.

After I went in for an hour the children got out of the pool, I was left alone and decided to take a floating chair and began floating looking at the clouds and the sky, feeling the sun on my face. It was quite, peaceful, my brain switch turned off away from my digital devices. It was calming, or well I was tryin to relax since I don’t really know how to relax. I saw birds flying around and a falcon spreading it’s big wings gliding through the air it was very nice. and then they came back in and we all began playing and fighting inside the pool having fun with the little children it was a special moment when two children approached me and I started playing connect four afterwards. I approached the little girl first since she looked alone.

One of them was 6 and the other child was 4. A brother and a sister and they were very heartwarming. I beat the girl in connect four two times and she beat me three times and we talked for a while and then the her four year old brother approached me and told me he liked the planets and sea creatures. He was watching videos about that on his mother’s phone explaining to me what he liked, he even liked my glasses in which, I found it very cute. When it came time to eat we all ate the food and the adults were laughing. They were small talking about various topics which I had no interest to participate in the children began playing games like soccer, tag, and running everywhere all around the outside and inside of the house. After we were all try which I did not remember how long it took we all went inside and talked with each other. I’m a socially awkward person at times, awkward may not be the right word but more like if people do not approach me first, I won’t talk to them. Most people I know who are not my friends we do not share the same interests. After that we stayed there will 12AM and I am not exaggerating when I say the adults were enjoying their time talking. I was the the youngers people and we decided to play games all to pass the time.

We played on our phones and we had a lot of fun singing songs and playing games as we were competitive about it. We were the last ones to arrive at the party, and the last ones to leave the celebration. I woke up today at 3PM (I had about 15 hours of sleep) and now as I’m writing this I have learned to not go to sleep so late. I am also now working on my book and school as well and if I can at least write 1K words and also finish school I will be fine with that. I will try to attempt and finish school this week and do half of it today since I have a trip starting next Saturday to Utah and two days after we come back we are going to Dallas. I know, I have two back to back

I have never been to Utah, and I’m very excited for it! We are going to be a week away and with this on Wednesday I want to finish One Hundred Years of Solitude which has been an incredible read so far. I have learned a lot of about the selfish, crazy, unreal reasons of a family’s behavior with both the actions and the consequences of that. What the Buendia family go through throughout several generations of repeating, learning, growing, and the suffering for One Hundred Years between love, loss, and affection. So far I am halfway through this read and I know it’s taken me about a month to read this book but sometimes it’s hard for me to comprehend since the vocabulary is different as well as the descriptions sometimes I have to flip back a page or to to not get myself confused. I have loved every shocking detail of this novel. After I read this book I want to read the Castle by Franz Kafka I am not sure what I am going to read after that. I am just enjoying One Hundred Years of Solitude.

I will be writing and finishing up school,

Yours,

SMS

P.S. I may also open a Substack!