Nothing Gold Can Stay

So, this blog I decided to write out by hand and type it in late. Not completely sure, but if this blog turns out shorter it's because my hand got tired. Man, blogging is ADDICTING. Will it be one of my little spurts of addiction? Not sure. I hope not.

Well anyway, you're probably wondering about my post title. Especially if you've never read and/or seen The Outsiders. See, last year every English class in the 7th grade in our school district had to read then watch  then compare the story called "The Outsiders".   Let's just say there's a riverly between the poor "Greasers" and the rich, snotty "Socs" in the story. This wasn't a small little jealousy riverly, this was a full-out violence riverly. The two "gangs" are very different in every aspect of their lives. Pretty much, the climax is is when one of the Greasers (Johnny) kills a Soc (Bob) who was drowning Ponyboy, his friend and also one of the main characters. So Ponyboy runs away with Johnny. Yadda, yadda. A lot of drama happens.It's a really good book, though. Google the plot line if you're more interested or go get the dang book because I'm too lazy to write it all. :)

Spoiler!

____________ dies. Actually, a couple of people die, but one of them--right before he dies--says to Ponyboy: 

"Stay Gold Ponyboy, stay gold."

(Just so you know, this is where I got tired of writing and am now finishing this out by typing)

The reason this mysterious person says this? Well, earlier, Ponyboy was with this person and recited a poem he had learned and learned by heart. It was when they were both in despair, having no hope. The poem goes like this: 

Nothing Gold Can Stay
~Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

I was actually changing my blog name to "Nothing Gold Can Stay" and making the background leaf-y and fall-ish, changing the colors to pretty golds/yellows/reds/oranges, like the leaves in fall. But then suddenly Blue Breeze came to my mind, and I loved the idea of a nice, soft blue/ocean look. Then i changed it to Aqua Breeze due to URL naming, and Aqua happens to be my birthstone color. Anyway, you probably don't care about all this.

Back to the poem, it's really a pretty poem which most kids in my class can recite by heart now. You have to dig deep and get to the true meaning, like in most of Frost's poems. Well I think. Do I read his poems? Psh. Not really. I'm more familiar with Jack Frost from Santa Clause movies then him. Trust me, I'm not that much of a poem person. My favorite poem I have ever written is about socks. Yeah, I'll have to blog about that one later. But seriously, this poem shows that nothing gold can stay. You might get a bad grade, you might have days of 90 degree swimming weather, then it'll be a cold, rainy thunderstorm that you're bored out of your mind. Thing is, bad things always have gold at the end, too. Like a rainbow after a storm. It's a constant cycle, set on repeat.

I don't know about you but i feel like I'm being all teachy and "Yes, always be a good kid." kind of person right now. So, I'm gonna end this kinda pointless/random blog with something that's awesome.

And sad.


I miss my weird-tasting cherry giant gummy bear! Jovi needs to give me the one she just got. :( Blue Raspberry's much better, and it's from when her sister went to Valley Fare and got it from the largest candy store in Minnesota not the local mall! :P
~Jae