It is rare when a man or woman who always have so much to say about everything, comes to a point where they do not know where to begin, or what to say. That is me right now. I have multiple stories from my childhood that I would love to share and reminisce about but I will only share a few with you now. Starting at the age of four, I can distinctly remember my daddy writing me a few songs about how much he loved me and how I was his precious gift from God. He would sing them to me every night while tucking me into bed. I would always fall asleep to his soothing lullabies. To this day, when I go home, he will still, but not every night, sing to me those once anticipated daddy loving lullabies. Even though I may be all grown up, I will forever be his little girl.
Furthermore, I believe that literature is more than reading a book or a play, to me, it is all around us. I just got back about two weeks ago from a intimate family vacation. My father, mother and brother and I rented a motor home in Vermont and traveled to New Hampshire, Maine, into Canada and back to Vermont. We are all outdoorsy people so we got to hike a few mountains, go kayaking and white water rafting and a few more adventurous expeditions. I noticed, while on those hikes in the wilderness, trying to reach the top of a 6,288ft mountain, that it was more than just a hike, it was an epic moment in time where my eyes met my thoughts and made a connection to literature and the true meaning of it. When we returned back to the motor home for dinner, my brother put in a National Park video on Acadia National Park and Forest located in Bar Harbor, MN. That video was a piece of literature. Watching how Acadia first began and all of the history behind what it has become today was breathtaking. The story of that place, its nature and animals that roam the lands is fascinating. Catching glimpses of what it looked like in the 1800's and hearing all the old family stories of who went there brought tears to our eyes and we felt like we were never supposed to leave each other again. The video brought meaning to why we go on these vacations together. My Savior has truly blessed me with such an amazing family.
Moreover, I have never really been into literature before, but I have recently been interested. I would say that my favorite literature book that I have read would be C.S. Lewis, "The Great Divorce." I read that book in high school, but I do not believe that I truly appreciated his work until a couple of years ago. Now, where I am at today, literature matters more than it ever did. I think literature matters because it is able to expand our minds and hearts if we let it. It forces you to think in a new way and to see, experience and feel things that you never knew were possible. But then on the flip side, literature doesn't matter to some people because of what our society has created in the entertainment world. People think that reading a book is now out of date and not what is fun or interesting anymore. Yes, literature is much more than just a book but people want to confine it to that meaning and not explore what else it could be.
