Alarm goes off: open eyes, close eyes, get up, start day, go to work, hang out with friends, eat dinner, go to bed. Even in the most routine routines our lives become messy. With all of the structure and specified clock in/clock out times, we tend to move a million miles an hour. Not to sound cliché, but it's an important thing to live your life to the fullest, to truly be so full of friendships and good times that you prioritize living oversleeping. There are things though, that deserve our full undivided attention.

When we're at school or at work, it can sometimes be easy to brush aside the small things around us. Like the brief period watching the colors of the sun change as it sets, not driving or looking out the window at it, but actually taking time out of your day to watch it set. Or talking with people around you, not because you're phone died and you have nothing to do, but because you truly enjoy talking to them. With so much chaos around it can be so refreshing to sit back and just relax.

A great deal of our lives have come down to hours and dollars. When we're at school, we work toward a degree that will set us up for a future job. When we're home in the summers, we work to make spending money for the summer and pay for school in the fall. It's a continuous cycle, unless we make the most out of it. No matter how much money we make during the summer, if we don't make time to make time we end up with nothing. You may be a few dollars wealthier, but what do you remember about your summer? The many days spent working or the nights (and mornings) that you spent with friends.

What is free time? No one knows because we're all constantly moving. The second we sit down and have nothing to do we feel relieved but then we start to become confused. We're unsure what it feels like to have nothing planned, nothing to do or nowhere to go in ten minutes. We take it for granted, the quiet. It's something that we all need desperately every now and then, even if it feels strange at first.

So in this messy life we require two kinds of order. The kind that makes the memories and occasional bad decision and the kind that keeps you sane. So between all of the extra shifts and long nights and early mornings there are smaller things we miss. Like family dinners on week nights and fr-amily (I'm looking at you Dirty Spoons) dinner on the weekends. Not everyone has the same small things, but we all have small things. We are young and full of life, but we can't forget that every small thing makes our messy lives a little bit simpler.