Exactly How I Feel

There were many things happening in Ella's life right now. But the thing playing on her mind the most were thoughts. Thoughts about a boy. Cooper was his name and they were in the same year at the same school. Unfortunately though, they had not 1 class together.

As Ella cleaned the house, lher iPod playing her favourite tunes through shuffle, a song came on that exactly mirrored what she was thinking and feeling at that point in time. The song, a song by one of her favourite country singers, drew her thoughts even further to Cooper. His soft pink lipped smile, green eyes and fly away black hair. She stopped in her tracks, staring up in to space a moment, staring into nothingness as she focused solely on the song. The song was talking about love and how love can change your decisions and your perceptions.

Ella felt a small tear trickle down her cheek as she realisaed the realities. Cooper and Ella mixed in different social circles, they had different friends, different spots they typically were in breaks and different groups of people. Yet still, Ella longed for him and wished the realities were somehow, somewhat different. Cooper however, was oblivious to all of this. That very fact, somehow broke Ella's heart a little.

Hidden in the Bushes

Maya George was walking home from work one day when she walked passed some bushes. As she passed them, she thought she heard a rustle. She turned back and looked to see a head pop up. Well, part of a head at least. Freaked out, Maya began to walk faster, keen to get home all of a sudden.

"Maya! Wait please!" Called a voice. Maya turned around, realising that the person she'd seen behind the bushes seem to know her, assuming it was the person behind the bushes. When she turned around she saw none other than Kyle Turner, the boy that had been her best friend throughout her childhood. Maya had lost touch with Kyle when they both graduated high school. It had been a whole 5 years since then.

"Kyle?" She asked, not believing it was really him. "It's me Maya." He confirmed. She looked him up and down. He looked smart but a little ruggered from hiding behind the bush all this time. He wore a dark blue, white and black checked long sheeved shirt with the sleeves rolled up part way so it looked like a three quarter sleeve and denim jeans with sneakers the same colour as the blue of his shirt. His dusty brown hair was wild yet tame as he had fringe that went diagonally across the left side of his face,just touching his eye. "Kyle!" Maya was excited to see her friend again. "This is amazing!" "I know. I never thought I'd see you again yet here you are." "What were you doing in the bushes?" "I fell." Maya laughed. Both friends agreed to catch up sometime soon, a planned encounter this time and exchanged details before going their seperate ways once again.

Unknown to Maya, Kyle took one last look it her before he walked on again. He looked at Maya, thinking how beautiful she was, how much he'd missed her and it was that moment that he realised he loved her. Really, he had all along. She looked elegant yet classy in her work clothes. She had on a pearl white blouse with buttons lining the middle. The blouse was tucked into a plain black, straight skirt. Beneath that her legs were covered by black stockings and she had on a pair of low heeled black shoes. Her dusty brown hair, the same colour as his own was up in a tight bun in the centre of the back of her head and her small dangly pearls looked radiant in the glow of the late afternoon sun.

That chance encounter had been 20 years ago and now Kyle and Maya told their children the story of the time they'd been reunited by chance. As they say, the rest is history.

Hearts of Gold

Mothers are the people who love us, care for us and support us. For some, they are the person who carried us within themselves for 9 months, for others they are the ones who took us in when others could not. They are the ones who put us before themselves from the day we were born for the rest of our lives, and most importantly, they are the ones who one day a year, in the middle of the month of May, were supposed to be pampered, spoilt and put first. For one day out of a massive 365, 366 on leap years. But Dianne Anderson had other ideas....

See, Dianne was a rebel and eversince she hit her teen years, she had assumed a new meaning to the phrase 'Mother's Day'. She now believed that it was the one day her poor mother, Susan had to wait on her hand and foot. Susan however, was unfortunately too weak to stand up to her daughter's ridiculous demands and so for one day a year Susan became her daughter's slave.

But that all changed when Dianne was 14. At that time, Susan became pregnant with another daughter. On November 14th 1998, little Georgia Anderson was born into the world. Unlike her older sister, Georgia was a wonderful child. Georgia loved Susan the same way Dianne did somewhere deep inside her, but unlike Dianne, Georgia spoiled her mum on mother's day each and every year. One year, when she was 8, Georgia drew her mother this set of hearts, telling her. 'these hearts are made of gold and they mean my love for you will never ever stop.'
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for all the mothers out there, happy mothers day & to my own mother. You are the best mother of all.

Beth & Missy



There was once a girl who was outcast at school. The next year, Beth would be starting year 7 at high school. So when she got her beautiful dog Missy in the christmas holidays before she started, her life changed forever.

Now, Beth may not have had friends at school. But unlike primary, Amy didn't care in the slightest. Because she had Missy. Missy was her best friend and the best dog she'd ever had. Beth told her everything and the great thing was, Missy couldn't tell anyone else.

As they both grew, they never ever stopped being best friends. To this day, they still are.

The Road of Life

Many people have questions. Questions where they have no idea of the answer, some where the answer can be found, but is hard to obtain. As you age, as you grow and gain more experience, you grow wiser, you get to know more and you slowly develop into your own person. Unique and unlike anyone else on this earth. We are all, essentially in the same boat. We are all trying to figure life out, we are all walking the same road.

Life is a road, with bumps and bruises, twists and turns, ups and downs all the way along. And as you get further, you become more experienced, more knowledgable. You have more tools to overcome the obstacles life throws your way and you bounce back up, more resiliant than the last time you fell. More able, more experienced.

We all struggle, and although we all travel the same road, the Road of Life if you like, each person's road is different, just like them. We'll all have twists and bends in our roads, we'll all have ups and downs, we all have bumps and bruises. But for every person, their location differs.

Life is a road. A road that takes us on a journey. A journey with ups and downs, twists and turns. A journey that allows us to meet people, who ultimately, make a difference in our lives and change us in some way and a journey of self discovery. Discovery of what we want to do in the future, who we are, and who we want to become.

Life may deal you some rocky patches, but always remember there are people around waiting to help you. To support you and comfort you, to talk you through life's struggles, hold you tight and if they have to, dig you out of a hole and help to get back on your feet.