&quot;Are you ready?&quot; she asked me. My first lesson in meditation. &quot;Yes. I'm ready.&quot; &quot;Okay,&quot; she told me. &quot;First, sit on your mat, legs crossed.&quot; I did as she asked. &quot;Okay, now you need to calm yourself and focus. Breath in through your nose, slowly, and out through your mouth. In. Out.&quot; I felt so relaxed. I could already feel all the tension leaving my body. &quot;Excellent. You're a quick learner. Now, then, we're going to close our eyes and use a rhythmic chant to get our minds ready to slip into a meditative trance. Repeat after me. &quot;Soka. Tapin. Yu. L'tal. Gural.&quot; &quot;Soka. Tapin. Yu. L'tal. Gural,&quot; I repeated. We chanted like this for five or ten minutes. Suddenly, something occurred to me. &quot;'So caught up in you, little girl.' Do you always use 80's rock to meditate?&quot; &quot;What?&quot; she asked. &quot;Don't like .38 Special? We could try some Anthrax if you prefer.&quot; I stared at her for a moment, saw she was serious, got up, and left. That's the last time I go to my sister's friends for anything. 2008-03-21T05:58:54Z http://ficlets.com/feed/story/25248 <p>hahahahaha that&#8217;s great!</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/25248?basename=50408 2008-03-21T05:58:54Z idreamoflilies http://ficlets.com/authors/idreamoflilies <p>Yeah, outside of writing, my favourite activity is singing. My friends tell me I&#8217;m pretty good (of course, they&#8217;re my friends, so they&#8217;re biased). So, yeah, music does show up a fair bit. :)</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/25248?basename=50157 2008-03-20T08:37:55Z Capital "W" Writer (LoA's Geekus Awesomeus) http://ficlets.com/authors/capital_w_writer <p>And now it shows up, of course&#8230;.</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/25248?basename=50156 2008-03-20T08:36:07Z atllta http://ficlets.com/authors/atllta <p>Hmm, I tried to rate this 5 stars but Ficlets isn&#8217;t currently cooperating with Safari : (</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/25248?basename=50155 2008-03-20T08:35:47Z atllta http://ficlets.com/authors/atllta <p>Excellent. It seems like music is a constant in your stand alone shorts. In this, it provides the characters with a way to both connect and disagree at the same time, very cool!</p> http://ficlets.com/stories/25248?basename=50154 2008-03-20T08:34:48Z atllta http://ficlets.com/authors/atllta