I like . . .
Written by: Alex Sandell
I like . . .
sitting on the top of a boathouse in a thunderstorm, holding hands with someone
I love.
I like . . .
when my PO Box isn't empty.
I like . . .
Dreaming of things that I'll never be, never have, or will never grow tired of.
I like . . .
Phone calls from long lost friends.
I like . . .
Bikini-lines and knowing I crossed them.
I like . . .
Someone telling me that my eyes are pretty.
I like . . .
A good game of Frisbee Golf, even though my game is never good.
I like . . .
Being the one to remember all of my grandfather's catch-phrases; people laugh,
and I feel as though he's talking through me.
I like . . .
My grandfather, and wish he could be writing this piece.
I like . . .
My grandmother, and how she reminds me that life isn't so bad, by telling me how
bad life is.
I like . . .
When people tell me an update I did was really special to them.
I like . . .
Feeling like I made a difference in somebody's life.
I like . . .
Laughing so hard that I choke.
I like . . .
Movie marathons with good friends.
I like . . .
All the little things.
I like . . .
Admitting that I like "all the little things" even though 99% of you
will think admitting to that is totally "cheesy."
I like . . .
Things that are totally cheesy.
I like . . .
Meeting new people in weird places and striking a friendship that I thought
would never exist.
I like . . .
When I look in the mirror and find a clear complexion.
I like . . .
The first kiss, on a first date, at the park, under the swing-set, falling in
love in the sand.
I like . . .
When my girlfriend will pour syrup all over her tits and let me lick it off at a
pace so slow she nearly orgasms over "Log Cabin."
I like . . .
When I see something nice on the news; something that shows me we're not all in
this for ourselves.
I like . . .
When I can always count on someone, because I know she will be there.
I like . . .
A good debate with someone I know probably will disappear.
I like . . .
Watching a giggling child and the wonders he or she sees at a mall, right around
Christmas, when the lights have lit up, and a beer-bellied man dressed in red
becomes a hero.
I like . . .
Silent movies, because I like to read.
I like . . .
A good book.
I like . . .
Looking through stacks of comics that I have collected, and remembering
everything that moved me as a kid.
I like . . .
When Hollywood gets one of my favorite childhood comics right (X-Men).
I like . . .
Sneaking into another movie after the one I paid for is over.
I like . . .
Getting caught because . . .
I like . . .
Making excuses.
I like . . .
Making someone laugh when they don't even think they can handle a smile.
I like . . .
Crying my eyes out on somebody's shoulder.
I like . . .
Being the shoulder eyes are cried out upon.
I like . . .
Getting trashed with a bunch of my friends, and watching all of us blush over every stupid thing that we did, the next
morning.
I like . . .
An innocent smile on a friendly face.
I like . . .
Paging through a porno magazine with a female, and comparing notes.
I like . . .
When my family gets together and orders Chinese.
I like . . .
Feeling a woman's breast for the first time, and finding out the definition of
Heaven.
I like . . .
A poem that puts tears in my eyes.
I like . . .
Discovering something new that not many people have "discovered"
before.
I like . . .
When somebody discovers me.
I like . . .
When the lady at the video store tells me that I'm funny.
I like . . .
Seeing the trembling chin on the "crazy" old man at the coffee shop
when I tell him that he just taught me something that I
never knew before.
I like . . .
When people don't define old men in coffee shops as "crazy."
I like . . .
People that believe in what they believe in and fight for their causes.
I like . . .
Any person that will take the initiative.
I like . . .
Crying at movies and hearing that I'm sensitive.
I like . . .
Getting hate-mail telling me that I'm a "fucking prick."
I like . . .
Hugging a stranger and not getting slapped.
I like . . .
Asking a girl out and being told "yes."
I like . . .
Looking at the stars in the sky and deciding that there must be something else.
I like . . .
This update, because I like honesty, and this update comes straight from the
heart, and is all that is me.
©2000 Alex Sandell [All Rights Reserved]. I like it when people respect copyrights.