Persiededlyshmashmadlydoo (Perseid) Meteor Shower

Some say it's the events in your life that shape you, that the occurrence of something somehow refurnishes and rearranges the furniture in your very comfortable and spacious heart. This is a moment that I think didn't create me at all. I don't think the streaking of those meteors across the sky is what made this all so wonderful. I think it was how it all played out, the anticipation being so much better than the gift itself. Talking to Avery on AIM until it finally got towards that time. Excitedly waking my dad up and climbing the tree to get to the roof and scanning the sky. Getting off the roof and eating toast with jelly with my dad. Telling my cousins over Myspace IM that there was going to be a meteor shower tonight and anticipating it as much as they were. Running outside onto the street holding my daddy's hand with the toast in the other and finally waiting. Peacefully and patiently hoping for it to happen as my neck cramped up and my legs got tired. Shaking my dad's shoulder with tear rimmed eyes screaming "I saw it, I saw it" at the top of my lungs and then laughing so hard. Laughing so hard and being happy, knowing that I would have had the best time even if I hadn't seen anything at all.