Well, see, your FIRST mistake…
was losing the weight for someone else.
She won’t stop making the crowd scream.
I’ve recently developed an affinity and/or new appreciation for
• a fantastic iTunes find by the name of The Summer Set [which I HIGHLY recommend],
• KiD CuDi, thanks to a CD from a friend with the BEST taste in music,
• this scrappy cat Sam and I rescued, who we named Oliver George Puss-in-Boots,
• iLike, because I forgot they provide 50 free downloads based on the user’s musical preferences,
• the gym [no, Geoffrey, I don't powerlift],
• wearing dark purple [le gasp!], skirts [moreso than usual], and dresses,
• my allegedly awesome boyfriend, who wouldn’t have even been on my radar as a love-interest three years ago,
• 8tracks.com,
• my best friend, because the more I deal with idiots, the more I appreciate the once-in-a-lifetime friendship we have, and
• blogging on a regular basis.
And now you’re caught up.
A repeat post.
Three hours of insomnia and boredom forced me to read some old blogs, mainly those in the “Stuff people won’t read” category. I stumbled upon this one, and I really think it needs to be reposted… just to remind me that sometimes, I am mildly insightful.
“I could make any number of lame comparisons about making a connection with someone by discovering a mutual love for something – cars, animals, music, cameras, Jesus, art, pie – to highlight my main point, but I won’t. I’ll just say that I think this is really how it has to work. I think a person must first acknowledge that they are a worthy individual before they can expect anyone else to do the same.
Maybe I should work on that.”
PostSecret.
Me too, holmes.
Kind of… gives one a renewed faith in humanity to think about it.
BlogSecret #3.
I have always thought you’ve surrounded yourself with so many people and activities so you wouldn’t have to face your own problems. I secretly hurt for you. If you’d just come to terms with yourself and realize you’re genuinely a good person, regardless of the things you think make you inferior to those around you, you’d breathe more easily. I promise.
Oh, long time no see!
A lot of things have changed in the past year, I’ve noticed. When I say “things,” I mean my relationships with the people around me. And when I say that they’ve changed, I mean they’ve pretty much disappeared.
It’s so funny how things like Facebook and Twitter allow us to keep tabs on people without actively participating in their lives. They allow us to think we’re involved in the lives of our friends, but give us the ability to do so at our leisure. Thanks to social networking, I can easily discuss the daily lives of approximately 200 people I haven’t seen or spoken to since May of 2009, and the lives of at least 50 more that I haven’t spent time with since probably my junior year of high school.
It upsets me that I haven’t seen these people in so long, but I think it could also be considered upsetting that I don’t… particularly… mind? I just feel that time has served as a means of figuring out those who are truly important to me. If I miss someone, I make an effort to contact them. If I can go about my day to day life without regretting the lack of communication between a particular person and myself, well… they must not have been that important from the start. Harsh? Maybe a little. Reality? Definitely.
This whole “real world” thing kind of sucks at times, but I’m starting to think I’ll manage.
Anyone who knows anything about PostSecret knows that new secrets are posted every Sunday.
That being said, Kayla and I had this very conversation Saturday night.
Odd, odd coincidence.
And this one, too, for good measure -
