This is a collection of quotes and poems which I use to validate some of my mindless thoughts and feelings about myself and life in general.
I tried something new here... I used any pictures that I have taken, and I wrote the poems over them. Each...
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Author Summary
Moral of the story... don't let society tell you what you have to wear or who you have to be in order to make you feel as if you are worthy of anything. My little sister is at that age right now... the age where name brands are necessary. "All I want for my birthday are Victoria Secret's Pink clothes" I heard her say. I shook my head.. "Why? Because all the other girls your age wear it and in order for you to fit in you think you have to wear it too?" I pried, and she did not like where this was going. My little sis is basically my best friend, but I was her age before and I remember I would ask my parents to buy me Hollister, Abercrombie, Pink... Looking back to those days, it is sad how since the time we are little we feel the need to fit in by means of basically branding ourselves. As I have gotten older, I realized that I am LITERALLY A WALKING BILLBOARD!!!! If I am wearing Nike, adidas, Pink, Champion, etc... I am actually PAYING THESE COMPANIES SO THAT I COULD SPONSOR THEM!!!! How backwards is that shit? They should be paying me to wear their shit everywhere everyday hahahah. But seriously, it drove me crazy hearing that because WHY DONT WE REALIZE THIS OBVIOUS LIFE FACTOR WHEN WE ARE THAT AGE!?!? Why do we feel that the price of these names will make us more valuable or acceptable? Why does the price of anything matter? Why does the name of anything matter? Why do we conform to these societal labels? I think of this on the daily as I sit back and watch society tear society apart, which is why I wrote this poem about our misconception of what the value of life truly is. I used to want to go to college to become a physician assistant. Now, two years of college left and I am almost an English teacher. How could one go from physician assistant to an ENGLISH teacher!?! Well soon enough, I realized that just because physician assistant's have pretty decent paychecks doesn't mean that it will be worth it... my mother is a nurse and I felt that she would be so proud if I went into the medical profession, and my parents would see how financially stable I would be... but would I be happy? Personally, I do not enjoy math. I HATE MATH. I enjoy science, but not nearly as much as I enjoy reading and writing. I realized this during my senior year of high school. I was taking two college science courses and two college math courses... I was planning to get some math and science credits out of the way for PA school. One night, I was reading, as usual, and I didn't want to put the book down to do some bullshit math homework. So I decided not to. I thought long and hard as to why I would ever want to put a book down for math or science, and I couldn't conjure up any explanation. Right then and there I decided. There is no reason to make myself unhappy to see my family happy. Just because my parents would be proud of me for striking a financially stable job, and especially one in the medical field, doesn't mean that it was meant to be. I told my parents about my decision the one day. I basically explained that the quality of life and happiness means a hell of a lot more to me than the quantity of money in my paychecks. My happiness is worth more than anything that money could buy, and you should value your happiness more than anything that could be bought as well. Know your worth. Have a good sense of intuition, and live up to your own value.
