Life smells like
watermelon chapstick. However, it’s not just any watermelon chapstick there’s a
certain plastic quality to that smell. Right now, I have a Lip Smacker Melon
Extreme chapstick. Every time I apply that chapstick I’m hurtled back over a
decade (good grief that makes me sound old). I don’t even know what I did back
then, at four years old. But I remember this smell of watermelon plastic
chapstick. I’ve always wondered in recent years, why I love watermelon flavored
lip product so much. Why that smell above all others is the one I love. Well I’ve
figured it out. Watermelon chapstick is what life smells like. At four years
old I didn’t have the worries that now fill my life. Life was simple and I
filled it with the most important things. Things like Barbie’s, friends, family
and fun. There wasn’t any petty worry over whether or not people actually have the
perception of me that I’m perfect. Whether or not I look great in these jeans,
or whether or not my hair is deciding to cooperate in a given day. Watermelon
chapstick is what makes life worth living, sounds superficial I know, but
really it makes me feel like a kid again, and it’s been awhile since I’ve felt
that way. I grew up too fast. I had to be perfect all the time. Not for my
parents; no way, my parents don’t care about that. No, I had to be perfect for
myself and for the people around me. They expected it of me, and I had to
deliver. I don’t know why. Why did I have to please others when it didn’t make
me happy? But it did make me happy. I didn’t realize what I was missing out on
all those years. But I understand now. I understand that Watermelon Chapstick
is truly what life should smell like. Those were the years when I didn’t let an
opportunity pass me by, when I gloried in the little things. Like the first
flowers blooming in the spring, that always gave me joy. Now it’s those
flowers, and much more. It’s the beauty of the sunset. One of my favorite
sights in the whole world is a sunset. Such beauty, grace and amazing color is
in that simple sky. Watermelon chapstick, sunsets, fun, that’s what life should
be made of. That’s what life is all about. The joys and triumphs overpower the
bad and soon the little joyful things take over.
Little things like
Watermelon chapstick.
