Life Is Like A Pair Of Pants

Life Is Like A Pair Of Pants

Life is like a pair of pants,

According to my mother dear,

Regardless of your happenstance,

Let all with ears to hear, come hear!

A fresh new pair of pants- Exciting!

A call for all to see- Inviting!

You pull them on, posing away,

You know you'll have a good day today!

You skip, you jump, you roll about,

These pants make you just want to shout!

Then- oops! You trip, you hear a "Rip"!

And- there! A tear, right on your knee,

The hugest hole you did ever see!

Too big, too wide, too large to hide,

What can be done? What can be tried?

Well, you won't get much done complaining,

So dry your tears, and face your fears,

Find your tools and let's start mending!

There they are, good as new- Nearly!

Whose to say they weren't like that- Really?

In fact, that patch, it's quite a match,

To your unique and special style!

That really wasn't so bad a trial!

My mother once told this to me,

Life is like a pair of pants,

Cause just like in reality,

No matter what your circumstance,

No one is perfect, we all sometimes fall,

So dust off those pants, and try to stand tall!

-Tessa Dior

Just so you know the advice that life is like a pair of pants was given to me by a friend from middle school, but I couldn't think of a good rhyme for "Life is like a pair of pants, according to a friend of mine." And this poem is written with a children audience in mind, (though, of course, adults can benefit from it too!) I thought it would be better for a child to be influenced by my poem to listen to the advice of their parents more than their friends.Someday I want to publish it in the form of a children's book, (kind of like My CTR Ring!) can't you just imagine the cute illustrations?

I wrote this during Math class, and so I have proven that Math is not a waste of time, I mean, look at the wonderful poems I can write whilst learning the various APR rates and how they are calculated. Writing these poems and short entries on my blog are further inspiring my decision to change my major to Creative Writing. I'm just so happy when I'm writing! Thanks for all of your love and support!

Clean-Shaven Men

I had a friend who recently blogged a clever, and very dramatic, poem like entry having to do with the dangers and pain of shaving. In reply I wrote him this, and decided to post it here, hoping you would get some amusement from it. I sure did.

And yet...

A clean-shaven man is truly ideal,

At least in my opinion.

Silky smooth is so alluring to feel,

In a woman's dominion.

Whereas with stubble,

It's truly too much trouble,

Amidst with the fur,

And the unruly whisker,

It'd be better to dismiss,

Than to come for that kiss.

And so to conclude,

Forgive me if I be rude,

Dear boy, if shaving you continue

Then I shall raise no more hullabaloo!

Celebrity Look-alike

On facebook it's Doppleganger Week. For anyone who needs a definition of doppleganger, like I did:

In the vernacular, the word "doppelgänger" has come to refer (as in German) to any double or look-alike of a person. The word is also used to describe the sensation of having glimpsed oneself in peripheral vision, in a position where there is no chance that it could have been a reflection. They are generally regarded as harbingers of bad luck. In some traditions, a doppelgänger seen by a person's friends or relatives portends illness or danger, while seeing one's own doppelgänger is an omen of death. In Norse mythology, a vardøger is a ghostly double who precedes a living person and is seen performing their actions in advance.

Though, in our case, I'm sure the look-alike craze isn't nearly as ominous. Facebook users are posting images of celebrities they have been told they look like. It took me a while, but I finally have decided on my celebrity look-alike. Emma Watson, the young British actress who started her career as the loved Hermione Granger (one of my favorite novel characters).

My roommates are convinced that my doppelganger would be complete if you could somehow combine Emma Watson, with Dakota Fanning. I'll let you decide. :)