Olive?

Blogging about life and my growth as a person. I originally started this blog to count as one of my ‘skills’ learnt for my silver Duke of Edinburgh award, but also to keep a record of the things that are of interest and have happened to me, a bit like a scrapbook really, but one I can share with anyone who happens to come across it.
Olive: a shade of green. “Green is life. Abundant in nature, green signifies growth, renewal, health, and environment. On the flip side, green is inexperience.”
When people think of an adventure, the colour olive usually comes to mind- it represents camping equipment, walking boots, military uniforms, and the usual things taken on an ‘adventure’ as such. The colour olive to me also represents nature; a shade of green, general trees, olive trees and actual olives (which repulse me-they taste awful. Thought I should let you know before continuing). Green is apparently also the colour of inexperience. This is really quite suited to me, as things like camping are completely new and unheard of in my life! I’d like to experience the best things out of life, and to make it worthwhile, so thought that ‘D of E’ was a good place to start.
Personally, the word olive means a lot more to me than just adventures and the colour of my skin. Olive is my grandma’s middle name, someone who really means a lot to me, and one of the people who influences me the most. She is the one who has inspired me to get the most out of this one life-just hearing even one of the stories from her life makes me smile. How about jumping from a diving board of God-knows-how-high in front of a crowd of people, completely not intending to? Or living through World War 2, being ordered to search through military uniforms by German soldiers and finding a decapitated finger or two along the way? And not to forget falling in love with a soldier in true movie-like style.
I’d like my grandchildren to feel the same way about me when I’m not as ripe as I am now (sixteen, relatively new to life you could say). So here's to my beginning.
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." — Maya Angelou

Enjoy yourselves, Robyn x