• I took a sheet of clean white paper and grabbed my favorite pen, the one with the blackish blue ink.
    I decided I would write a letter. The kind that should inspire hope.
    I put my pen down on the paper and this is what I wrote:
    Dear
    Then I realized I had no idea who the letter would be for, so after dear I wrote:
    Hopeless
    Dear Hopeless?
    I want the person to continue reading once they found my letter, not to feel insaulted.
    I started again. I crossed out the "less" in "Hopeless" and wrote beneath it "full":
    Dear Hopefull
    Yes, that sounded much better.
    Now, how does one make their words inspire hope?
    I thought for a moment. What is hope anyways?
    I thought back to that Emily Dickenson, or whoever, poem. It says that," Hope is a thing with feathers."
    What the hell does that mean? The image of the word hope sprouting wings and taking off into the clouds appears into my head.
    Hope is what someone feels when they know nothing else can go wrong.
    That's it! I write it down.
    Hope is what makes people get out of bed every morning and helps people reach their dreams.
    I write that down too.
    I found hope when I was throwing a beer bottle away. I was at the beach when I saw this bottle. I saw it in the sand laying where the waves no longer lapped. I figured I would do my part to keep the beach clean and I picked the bottle up to bring to the recycle basket. Now, I don't know what made me look but before throwing the bottle into the basket I looked through the warped brown glass. Looking back at me was a small shimmery fish swimming in about an inch and a half of water. Quickly I ran back to the shore and gentely emptied the fish back into the sea. That fish must of had a lot of hope.
    I wrote this down.
    At the bottom of the letter I signed:
    Sencerily, New Found Hope
    I felt a little dumb writing this letter, but I rolled up the paper anyways and carefully shoved it into the brown beer bottle. Then I pushed the cork into the hole and threw it into the sea.
    I hope someone would find it and learn that hope can be found in all kinds of places. Even in brown beer bottles in the sea.