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There's nothing more gratifying than trying and succeeding, and even when you do not succeed at least you know that you tried.

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Athena woke up one day after Christmas after having a very scary dream. Tito, her cat, sat on her lap as she stared at the white ceiling above her. Athena was confused. She had had the weirdest of dreams as of late, but the one from last night was the weirdest one yet. She squinted at the ceiling and tried to recall the dream from last night. The dream that had woken her up in fright. The dream went like this. Athena recalled the following.

The dream from last night was in the first-person point of view. Athena was the main character. In the dream, she ran up an endless amount of stairs through dark hallways that were almost pitch black. She could not tell if she was in a house, mansion, or hotel. All she could feel was dark wooden stairs under her feet from stairwell to stairwell. Athena ran and sometimes when she ran, she ran past windows whose glass had been broken. From the corner of her right eye, Athena could see snow with a grey tint falling. The snow fell slowly and sometimes graced her cheek as she ran by. After running for what felt like a marathon, Athena reached the last stairwell which led her to a ledge. Athena did not see the ledge so she fell over the edge into darkness.

Athena opened her eyes to feel Tito on her lap. She awoke from the dream very confused. It probably meant nothing, so Athena stood up to grab a bowl of cereal from the kitchen to forget the bad dream. What a dream to have one day after Christmas.

life update

One two three... Say words that come to your mind in one minute with the last letter of a word being the first letter of the next word. No words can repeat.

And go!

1. pineapple
2. evil
3. liquid
4. deer
5. rider
6. river
7. rabbit
8. tiger
9. red
10. downward
11. dream
12. mother
13. rain
14. nerd
15. dread
16. damp
17. pepper
18. road

Something I discovered: I thought of a lot of words that began with r and ended with r. Also, I discovered that I thought of words that ended with d.

chipped black nails

It was 8:30 am in the morning and Athena barely woke up. Her alarm was set to seven, so she could relax that morning. Her class began at nine. She did not want to worry to get to class on time. After the annoying alarm beeped, Athena quickly changed from pajama pants and over-sized sweatshirt into dark red jeans and a periodic table of the elements shirt. She put on a black sweater, grabbed her backpack, and ran out of the door at 8:40 am. In fifteen minutes, she would get to school. Five minutes later, her class would start.

As Athena drove she liked to look at the people on the street.

A tall man stood at a corner bus stop eating two donuts and drinking a small coffee. He wore a brown jacket and jeans. His blond hair flowed in the wind while he took a bite of one of the donuts.

"I wish my hair was as luscious as his," thought Athena.

Then, a lady jogged with her dog on the sidewalk. Since it was going to rain, she wore a pink raincoat and rain boots. She didn't even look uncomfortable. Also with a pink raincoat and rain boots, the lady jogger's dog ran in the drizzling rain.

“What a weird thing to wear while running,” commented Athena.

Afterward, a small kid ran for a ball that rolled across the street. Luckily there were no cars, except for Athena's car one block away. When the kid reached the other side of the road he raised his hands high into the sky triumphantly. Then he walked into a pet store nearby.

"Why isn't he is school?" asked Athena.

There weren’t many people on the street today. Thirteen minutes into her drive and while at a red light, Athena spotted a little old lady with a grocery cart full of groceries attempting to cross the street. Her grocery cart was stuck on the curb, though. She pushed and pushed, but it would not budge. Athena considered pulling over to help, however, the red light would not change. Finally, the grocery cart budged. It went. It moved. It allowed the little old lady to advance. Athena was so happy to see the little old lady move again that she grinned so big her mouth hurt. The little old lady could finally take her groceries home or wherever she was going. As Athena drove past the little old lady, she grinned even more.

“What a wonderful thing to see this morning,” said Athena.