I saw this on a bumper sticker this weekend.

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
I need that bumper sticker.
I think it's a Jimi Hendrix quote.
Rock on.

To Every 17 year old boy

Any girl that prefers wild flowers and home-
made greeting cards,
over a dozen roses and text message:

Is so WORTH every moment.

Very very very rough draft-esque.

If I could send a message to every 10 year old girl,

I would say:

Just don't do it.

Don't grow up.

Take every summer day and keep it in the loose floorboads of the treehouse.

Keep every memory of never caring what time it was because you have all day. Keep it somewhere you'll remember so you can find it when you need to.

keep the same, innocent love you have for your parents. They really just want to help.

Keep swinging,

sliding,

and merry-go-rounding until sunset because one minute you'll be catching fireflies,

and the next,

you're gone.

Keep making mud pies and playing pretend and loving,

and skipping,

and giggling.

Keep your hugs and eskimo kisses and

spend all day looking for luck in a four-leaf clover.

And don't grow up without remembering:

you are the girl that once loved the boys for their sweetness.

By tomorrow,

you'll need it.