Lemonade: The Gift of Friendship
A Diary
A/N: Not my best work I'm guessing. It's a little flighty. I wrote it at 2:20 AM when I was sick and
couldn't sleep. No flames please! I know its kinda messed. I was bored…what can I say? Well, read on…if you dare (Ha. Ha. Ha...I'm
laughing I'm so funny – whatever…that was supposedly a joke…this is getting
really lame…just ignore this stupid authors note!).
Disclaimer: I don't own any of J.K. Rowling's characters
or ideas, etc, etc, etc.
Dear Diary,
They always say, "To make
lemonade, you need the lemons."
Supposedly it's a metaphor to life.
All I can say is that I've never had any lemons. I don't understand quite what they're
talking about. What do the lemons
symbolize? I'm guessing lemonade
symbolizes life, but what in the world could lemons be? Friends?
Family? Ambitions? I don't know (as I already told you). All I know is that life is worth
living. I mean, thinking of all the
people in your life, really helps cheer you up; unless its Snape, but then
again even he isn't really that bad. I
wonder why people choose him to pick on?
He can't be that bad. Maybe he's
just confused or hurt; or maybe he just needs a friend; a real friend. Well, Charms will start any minute now with
or without me, so I'd better get going unless I want the professor to give me
all that rubbish on why a model student shouldn't be late. I'll write later tonight, of course.
-Me
Dear Diary,
Have you ever wondered why
people use big words? Do you think they
use them to make them look smart? To
impress people? I'm not sure, but big
words are certainly getting on my nerves.
Long words, big words; they all seem the same…except they're spelled
differently and they mean different things.
I hate pop quizzes. We had one today
in Care of Magical Creatures. I could
barely remember anything even though it is my favorite class; Charms isn't,
which many have a hard time believing.
Yesterday someone snuck out of Hogwarts. People do that all the time, but this time it was Jenna! Can you believe it? Jenna, the perfect prefect; anyways on time;
straight A student; the attractive little womanly woman; snuck out of Hogwarts
and went to the Three Broomsticks. She
ended up getting drunk (which I think was her plan) on Butterbeers. Supposedly she had 50 of them! I felt kinda sorry for her though. People are giving her all this garbage about
it, especially Bertha (Jorkins) and Rita (Skeeter). She really isn't that bad; she isn't a Slytherin or anything like
that; She's a Ravenclaw and she's really nice…to everyone. No one has anything against her. I wonder why she drunk so much. Madame Rosetta didn't even try to stop
her. I wonder what Jenna went
through. Maybe I should ask her. She's starting to look really horrible. She has dark circles under her eyes and will
barely talk to anyone. She still spends
most of her time in the library though.
I should go. Gotta get a good
night's sleep for tomorrow (we have a test in Transfiguration. Yuck!)
-Me
Dear Diary,
I asked her. I asked Jenna why she snuck out of Hogwarts
and got drunk. Her answer surprised
me. I was actually surprised that she
didn't tell me to bug off and go away.
She said, "My life sucks. It's
all a complete waste. I'm no good; the
world is no good; life is no good!
Nothing is any good anymore. So
I decided why don't I do something opposite of what the prefect Jenna would do;
and I did it; I did the opposite; I got drunk." Don't you think that's a bit confusing? Life is wonderful because of the people in it. I'm beginning to realize that no one seems
to have any real friends anymore.
People are just giving up on friendship and friends. I get it.
I get the quote now, "To make lemonade, you need the lemons." In my life there are people who need help;
they have no real friends and that hurts them; it effects who they are. To make my life really worthwhile I can help
these people. I can be their real
friend that they don't have, but really, truly, deep down inside, need (even
though they probably won't admit it).
They are the lemons. These
friendless people are the lemons. Well,
I shouldn't say friendless. They do
have friends; they just don't have real friends. To make my life something special for me I
needed these people; because now I can help them and when you help someone it
makes you feel great. Like you did
something in your life that was really worthwhile. And that's why you were put on earth: to help each other. So basically "when life gives you lemons,
make lemonade." That's another quote. I do love these lemonade quotes because they
are truly the honest truth. People were
put on earth to help each other and when one person helps another person that
other person may go and help another person after that and so on and so
forth. Because helping one person can
make your day and the person you helped.
It feels great knowing you've helped someone; that you've had an impact
on someone's life and on the world; because even little things have a lasting
impression. The best gift in life isn't
love; though some people may think that it is; its love in the sense of
friendship. The best gift in life is
Friendship, and in friendship there is love.
Your friendship may someday save a person's life. Though, it may or may not be experienced
directly by you. Your friendship to one
person goes to that one person's friendship to another, etc (if that makes any
sense, Diary). I wonder if I will ever
change the world. Maybe the gift of
friendship and love may one day change a person's life; or even change mine;
who knows. But I sure hope it does;
because nothing is better than the gift of friendship; of unconditional love.
Love Forever & Always,
Me