live life... not hide from it
Okay now I can actually write. I've been trying to think of meaningful things that happened this year and so many have happened that I don't know where to begin. I guess in some ways 2002 was a big year for me, not neccasirily meaning the thing have happened have been good things. For one, I met Matt. And for the first time ever I felt like everything was right i the world. And then I threw it away, crushing all hope and everything I stood for in the process. This made me learn how to fake hapiness and hide my misery and try not to bitch and cry all the time. Then I got over him, and everything was okay... not quite good, but okay. I also realized that I don't REALLY hate my dad... he just pisses me off sometimes. I also came to the conclusion that I don't hate my mom, it's hard to hate someone you don't know. Another big thing, perhaps th biggest obstacle, was my being sick. From May through November I was in and out of the hospital... constantly breaking down and making myself sick. Hating the world and everyone in it. At the same time I became really good friends with Rob, Steve, and Rich. And the fellowship was formed. This helped alot because it made me realize that people actually care about me, and know that I have somewhere to turn when I just feel so alone... so worthless. If anyone reading this has gone through this feeling you know how bad it is. Feeling completely alone in the world... it's so hard. It's like trully believing no one loves you...like no one would care wether you lived or died. I mean I wasn't depressed or suicidal or anything... I just felt alone... so hopelessly alone. More recently I started going out with Steve wich is really great. The sappyness is fun despite popular belief... and it's just sort of like everything is right in the world. Even if it's just for a moment. I also met Darleen Perkins... She's an adult who actually cares about me. She didn't even know me and yet she cared... You don't know what a big deal that is to me. There was a confusing thing between Jordan and I... and for this I'll keep my comments to myself. Other than he's one of my best friends and I love him very much. And he is really dear to me... These are the first things that come to mind, Although I must admit that much more has gone on in my life in this past year.
There are also several things I need to learn, How to be myself without anyone's help. How to not critisize myself so often. How to let my soul flow through my writing without being afraid of people getting to close to me. Letting people inside my mind. I want to have an adventure... To experience the world, both the good and the bad. I want to live life and not be afraid of it... maybe even find out who I'm meant to be. I want to make history, not just learn about it. I want to stop sheltering myself and being so afraid of everything... Just let myself be me. And then there are the more practical resolutions, being on time with library books, doing homework on time, practicing guitar, writing at every spare moment. But I think I should maybe focus on the inner me. Who I really am... work on the me that I have to deal with and not the me that people see. The real me....
The best quotes of the year are as follows:
*We will go * no wher we know * We don't have to talk at all --Beck
*In your eyes I am complete --Peter Gabriel
*Is there world enough for me? --Jane Frances
*What you do speaks so loudly that you canno*t hear what you say --Ralph Waldo Emerson
*Never stop dreaming, for when you stop dream*ing, you lose all hope. ---Me
*Ha! we are gigantic --Poem
*You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also feirce you cannot hurtthe world or even seriously distress her. --Winston Churchill
*Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile intheir shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes. --Frieda Norris
*The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem. Got that? --Sisterhood of the traveling pants
*If you feel like you're under control, you're just not going fast enough. --Mario Andretti
*Sometimes your the windsheild; sometimes your the bug. --Mark Knopfler*
*When life hands you a lemon, say, "Oh yeah. I like lemons. What else ya got?" --Henry Rollins
*Love is like war: easy to begin, hard to end. --Proverb
*There is no such thing as fun for the whole family. --Jerry Seinfeld
*Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself be loved? --unknown
*Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday --Anonymous
*Not all who wander are lost. --J.R.R. Tolkien
*Dance like no one's watching, Live like today's your last, love like you've never been hurt. --unknown
The best songs of the year
*The starting line- Best of me
*Something Corporate- Konstantine/Understand the dream is over
*Simple Plan- I'd do anything
*The Julianna theory- August in Bethany
*Relient K- Those words are not enough
*Sonic flood- When the music fades/Did you feel the mountains tremble
*Good Charlotte- Motivation proclamation
*Hillsongs- Forever
*New found glory- forget my name
Well I guess this is pretty good for the first post of the year.. Much reflextion has gone on. I hope for the best for me as well as all the ones I care about.
God bless all my friends and loved ones in 2003, let them fear not to live life, just because they might not see 2004.
much love forever <33 *nite