The Saddest Day :: essays research papers

It was one of those superb daytimes that makes you forget all your problems and makes you grateful that you are alive. The sun was beaming down scintillating honeyed rays to the earth, play everything they touched into gold. The wind was a light blowing breeze, like angels breathing softly upon the world. The birds were singing their most beautiful songs turning the trees into radiant symphony orchestras. The crystal give the sack sky must have transformed into a mirror over the Caribbean Sea, for it was of the most beautiful shades of blue I had ever laid eyeball on. The leaves were blowing around on the ground, already changed to fall colors of browns, yellows, and even pinks. The air smelled refreshing like a splash of cold water on your lawsuit when you awake in the morning, and crispy like an autumn leaf. Indeed, it was a glorious day, but you should never judge a book by its cover.     As I stepped out of the house that morning, I took a deep breath an d let the morning air fill my lungs. I was off to school, my Dad was waiting impatiently for me in the car. Beep Beep I heard the horn blow, echoing off the brick wall of my apartment. I hurried along to the car, barely jumping in before my Dad started to pull away. "You need to get ready a little faster you know." He said to me with what seemed to be a permanent posterior look on his face. I wasnt going to argue with him today. It was too splendid out to fight, so I just nodded my head and smiled. I went through the day feeling great. School seemed as if it had zoomed by and before I knew it I was walking home. The weather was still the same, if not better by now. As I passed little children on my way home I smiled thinking about when I was little how great it was and then. The worst thing in the world then was a scraped knee, and now it was a broken heart.      As I neared my house I got a chill down my spine, like a cold efflorescence of air when yo u open the freezer. I didnt think anything of it at the time. It was just a chill and I got them all the time. But now I know to be scared when I get one of