On Top of the World and I'm Feeling just fine.

12 stories high, there is a roof I have admired for the past 3 years. It's called the SWKT, and ever since little freshman Abigail came to BYU she has wanted to get on top of it. Unfortunately, the door is always locked. I think it used to be open to the public, but then students decided that throwing paper airplanes and pennies off of 12 stories would be a lot of fun or something (though to admit, throwing a paper airplane from that roof would be a lot of fun, so...) I knew that every so often they would hold tours up there, but I always seemed to find out about them the day after they happened.

Spoiler to this story: I DID IT

Conveniently I have a best friend who is a nursing major that spends a lot of time in the SWKT and sees pertinent posters. (Here we are on the top! I don't even care that you can't see the city behind us, because let's be real, that girl IS the view #wifethat #ohwaitSOMEONEALREADYDID. Good call on that Matthew.)

Lis must like me a lot, because she helps me cross of a lot of my #byubucketlist. There's a picture with us and Cosmo somewhere, she was definitely the brave one who asked. I'm real lucky to have her as a friend, and I'm glad that I can still hang out with her sometimes even though she's married and married people are supposed to be boring. We fight through that. Also, Matthew is pretty cool, so that helps.

Okay, this was not meant to be a Lissa appreciation post. I mean, there's a lot of appreciation I have for her, so it makes sense that this would happen like every post, but I digress.


I don't know why, but a lot of my bucket list revolves around heights. I don't really see the appeal of skydiving, because that seems unnecessarily reckless. But I do want to ride a helicopter, summit Y mountain, get on the top of buildings, etc. I love being able to see everything around me for miles. I think it somehow makes me feel small, but on top of the world as well. While life can get really hard sometimes, taking a step back (or rather, a step up) puts life into perspective. We can get so caught up in that bad things that our happening in our own little world. When we can see a world that is bigger than what we see on our daily basis, I think it brings the realization that spilling something on our shirt, or tripping in front of a cute boy isn't going to end the world, because the world is, surprisingly, much bigger than ourselves.

President of BYU, Kevin Worthen quoted Thoreau saying "Some will remember no doubt , not only that they went to college, but that they went to the mountain." He continues to talk about how mountains are have historically, and continue to be, places of instruction, places of communication and revelation, and places of transfiguration where people are transformed and changed in significant ways. Being a midwest girl, where the saying is that you can "stand on a stepstool and see the back of your head" because the terrain is so flat, I have always loved the mountains. I'm glad that I did as Thoreau said, and went not only to college, but to the mountains too. 

Anyway, this has been a really long way of saying, that I live in a pretty place.