Rise and Shine

  

Living through Lenses

The first week of Liz in Elsewhere was worse than being in hell for her. She didn’t find herself and most of the time she was a mixture of feelings that will always ruined up her day by reminding her of Earth. She had her acclimation appointment, where she was introduced into a chair and saw a video that explained all the rules Elsewhere had followed by the norms she was expected to follow. For a teenager such as Liz, living with grandmother was a nightmare but she did it only because she had nowhere else to go. Who would understand her or comfort her if she needed, a grandmother is fine, but she needed friends and something to forget her life on Earth. She spends most of the time in the Observation deck, the ODs. These were binoculars with advanced technology lenses that focused the Earth. Anyone could see through them and watch your loved ones and what were they were doing in that precise moment. After having a bad conversation with Aldous, the man who was in charge of orientation for the new. He also introduced every person the ODs and showed you your funeral. After watching her funeral and being disappointed because Zooey wasn’t there, she decided to stay there since she was very curious about what was her best friend doing. Lizzie saw Zooey in the graduation party and nostalgic she just kept staring at her best friend’s dress, that if she would got hit by a taxi cab, she would help Zooey chose. Lizzie even more disappointed, decided it was time to leave the OD’s for another time.

“That’s certainly a negative way of looking at things.” (Zevin 58)

Realize, what are the things that stop you from doing something? It’s basically us! Our bad attitude, bad mood, bad thoughts; the thing is we always limit ourselves with obstacles we think are big, but in reality they don’t. Studies had determined that people in the majority imagine a worse thing than what is happens in reality. Every person in this planet has lost something for fear to lose. Being in that situation isn’t something that happens because it has to, it does because we chose. We chose to limit ourselves from being better. Let’s make a change and start seeing the good side of things, whether they aren’t as good as others they might have something good to learn from.

“Wish you were here.” (Zevin 100)

It requires a lot of maturity knowing how to appreciate something you have before you lose it. Many times, we don’t even realize we have something until we realize we don’t have it any more. We need to make conscience about this because it is no big deal when it’s about physical things or objects. But taking about it when you lose a person or something that you really miss, we can’t do much to get it back. We learn with the course of time to appreciate what we have, and also appreciate what we don’t.