The best thing to have when you come home from school sick is tea, chicken noodle soup, and a warm blanket. Those things bring your comfort and security as your body heals and rests, they help you start to feel put together. The same thing happens with your family, when you feel sad or you have just had a rough day those items that you have when your sick (tea, chicken noodle soup, and a blanket) are replaced with the love your family and friends bring to help lift you back up.
The tea in this situation is your friends. When you drink tea while you’re sick it makes you feel warm and comfortable, it helps to sooth your achy body. Your friends do the same thing, when you feel down or hurt they help to sooth your broken heart and make you feel comfortable being exactly who you are not the person you have to be at school or work but the weird, crazy, fun person your friends bring out of you.
Next comes the chicken noodle soup. Especially on those cold rainy days where you just feel so run down and gross, when you take that first spoonful of chicken noodle soup you instantly feel refreshed and by the bottom of your bowl you are back to your old self. For me I compare chicken noodle soup to my brothers. They recognize when I am down or if I feel unhappy about something. Just like the soup they try their best to comfort and refresh me with jokes, sweet memories, and kind gestures. They help me feel like myself again, in the good times and bad times my three brothers give me hope, laughter, and life just as the chicken noodle soup refreshes me when I’m sick.
And finally the warm blanket represents security and a sense of belonging and love within the warmth it gives you. My parents give me the same feeling. They have shaped me into the person I am today and they also show me who I want to be when I grow up. they wrap me up with love, each day letting me know how much they care for me and that no matter what they will stand by me. My parents offer the security I want giving me everything I need and more. Just as the blanket does when I’m under their protection I feel safe and at peace trusting in everything they do.
As the tea, chicken noodle soup, and blanket help you heal from being sick you know that no matter what, those things will help you feel better even if you won’t have them for awhile while you’re healthy. I am I ready to let go of those things that help heal me? No, I will always need tea (friends), chicken noodle soup (brothers), and blankets (parents) to lead me through all situations because even though those things are great for when you are sick they are just as amazing when you’re healthy. I’m not sure what I will do when I won’t have them standing by me for 9 months but I will have them in my heart no matter the miles in between us.
