lighter boots

Alright, so I'm kind of stealing something from "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"....

The kid in this novel frequently uses the term "heavy boots" to refer to things that hurt his heart. I love that. He talks about the things that give him heavy boots, and also the things that make his boots a little lighter.

Today I was meandering about town with my mom and I came across some things that gave me very heavy boots through conversation and interaction:  

how much I miss her and how helpless I feel though I know nothing I could do would help, that woman in Macy's who just needs a friend, those country songs that always leave my mom in tears, his semi-often analytical meanness,  that woman who is leaving her husband of twenty-five years when she's forty-two years old, people who indulge in worry out of sheer habit...

But I also found plenty of "heavy boots" diminishers. One of which was a few Taylor Swift lines that the radio delivered .. I could be embarrassed of such a thing, but I don't care. I love this little part, and I will listen to the entire song just for it.

"Romeo save me I've been feeling so alone. I keep waiting for you but you never come. Is this in my head? I don't know what to think-

He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring and said, 'marry me Juliet,

You'll never have to be alone. I love you and that's all I really know'...."

It kinda brings hope to the world, and keeps youthful dreams alive. 

It makes my heavy boots a lot lighter, and brings back those butterflies to my stomach. 

It's like a breath of free, fresh air in a world that tries to dull the sterling life within you.

And it rekindles a blazing fire in my heart, and makes me feel like being so young and naive is rightly okay for now..