It's surreal to think that every adult out there today was once a crazy teenager. You know, they've probably gotten drunk at least once. Done things they weren't supposed to do. When you grow up, you learn right from wrong; you can't do anything crazy without fear of punishment or, at least, strange looks from other adults.
Why, though? Why can't we all be crazy and young and carefree forever? I mean, to a certain extent. I know it's only realistic to expect that there needs to be adults in the world that use their experience to like, better the world now and keep away anarchy and chaos and stuff like that. But, I think grown ups need to lighten up.
Everything should be amazing and beautiful everyday. I think we take the little things for granted. I really do. I do it, too. But I think we, as a society, should stop. Slow down and appreciate the things around you. I think that's the key; slow down. Stay gold, aye? (Maybe this is what I get for joining drama and watching a 2 hour depiction of the book/movie "The Outsiders" in play form everyday.)
Nature's first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower, but
Only so an hour.
So leaf subsides to leaf,
So eden sank to grief.
So dawn goes down to day,
Nothing gold can stay.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
the first tuesday
Alright, so I'm reading the book Tuesdays With Morrie. It's so cute and inspirational. A lot of things have come up lately that make me really want to live my life to it's fullest potential. You're only young once, right?
I wish we could stay young forever. When you're young, you're smart yet naive enough to dream. As you get older, you're sort of brought back to reality and probably think things like "Well, my dreams aren't going to come true. I'd better choose some other path to follow." No. I don't want to settle. You get one life, so why not work hard to achieve what everyone else thinks as impossible?
I have to watch myself when people ask me what I want to be when I grow up. When I saw "an Academy-Award winning actress" most people (especially adults) smile and roll their eyes and as me things like "No, really." Except they probably don't say it in so many words.
Who says that once you turn like, 20, you have to give up what you want? I guess the textbook thing to do is to get a career and start a family. But whose to say that that's what everyone wants in life? I know it's not what I want. I hate how society has this image that everyone thinks they have to follow. I want everyone to be blind to the monotony of society from the day that they're born, and have people make their own decisions instead of the decisions of our ancestors that were doing the right thing for THEM at the time.
I wonder how different the world would be if everyone had the ambition to follow their hearts.
I wish we could stay young forever. When you're young, you're smart yet naive enough to dream. As you get older, you're sort of brought back to reality and probably think things like "Well, my dreams aren't going to come true. I'd better choose some other path to follow." No. I don't want to settle. You get one life, so why not work hard to achieve what everyone else thinks as impossible?
I have to watch myself when people ask me what I want to be when I grow up. When I saw "an Academy-Award winning actress" most people (especially adults) smile and roll their eyes and as me things like "No, really." Except they probably don't say it in so many words.
Who says that once you turn like, 20, you have to give up what you want? I guess the textbook thing to do is to get a career and start a family. But whose to say that that's what everyone wants in life? I know it's not what I want. I hate how society has this image that everyone thinks they have to follow. I want everyone to be blind to the monotony of society from the day that they're born, and have people make their own decisions instead of the decisions of our ancestors that were doing the right thing for THEM at the time.
I wonder how different the world would be if everyone had the ambition to follow their hearts.
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