Live Life...and Love it Equally

"Live life...and love it equally"

Putting down my quill, I stared at those words on my parchment, trying to find out the real meaning. Why did anyone or someone write this quote anyways? Don't we love the life we mean to live? Do we? Or don't we?

Of course, I do love my life and everything in it,around it.

My friends, my family, my owl, myself...yes everything.

But a small yet firm voice at the back of my head disregarded this,making new questions arise in my mind..

Did I really love everything in life?Was everything I experienced worthy of being called enjoyable?Maybe not.

How about the time I was cursed as a mudblood? Or when I was laughed at for being a know it all? Or for being the perfect Prefect and then the Head girl? Or even when I was rated as the property of the biggest jerk on earth?

Or how about the time when I was trapped with the slytherins, especially Malfoy?

No, I didn't have a life I could really say I love.

Until now.

Now, at the end of seventh year, I have a life, a happy life which I will enjoy forever. But it wasn't like this always.

No.

I remember the time I first entered this school.

Completely unknown to this weird world, scared, yet excited at the fact that I was one of the luckiest people on earth to have got an opportunity to attend this school. And then, I remember my joy at being sorted into Gryfinndor, the same house as my friends. And the relief I felt at not being a Slytherin.

But that was just the beginning. The excitement grew more as I learnt magic, and tried the spells and curses.It was the greatest feeling to have performed a task perfectly.

And the first time I sat on a broomstick.

The feeling which I got...it was out of the world. And my excitement at being chosen a chaser for my team was inexplicable.So was the first time I actually scored,against Slytherin.

And it all continued to second year, where I made so many friends. Then I got the title of the brightest girl in second year, something which not only I, but my whole family was proud of...well almost whole

But from the third year, my life took a drastic turn. Perhaps it was because i wasn't the same innocent self, as my friend crystal put it.

And then I met two people who i began to hate the most in life. The two most arrogant and irritating bigheads in the whole of Hogwarts. It was in my third year that the repetition of spells and curses, and familiarity with the magical world made my excitement reduce to a tiny spark from a roaring fire.

And since then, life has been monotonous.

I closed my eyes as the images of the past year, which changed me completely flashed across my mind. Images of friends, my family, my irritating sister...and him.

The person who changed me forever, for the best.

Would you want to know him, or me? Or how my life changed?

Read along then, as I narrate all the happenings of this year to you, as you gaze through my pensieve, and take a look at my life this year, the life of Lily Marie Evans.