If This Was A Movie

      We all believe that we have the power to change the people in our lives, the way they act – we think we can change them for the better with our love and attention. It starts off when you’re young when you watch Beauty and the Beast, in which you can see a huge emotional and physical change from the Beast into a handsome man, all because of a beautiful girl's love for him. This only sets a stage for the countless movies you watch as you get older; A Walk to Remember, 10 Things I Hate About you, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Failure to Launch, and countless other ones with similar plot lines. If you haven’t seen these I’ll break it down for you: there’s a gorgeous guy, who everyone is in love with but is a complete jerk. A girl comes along (surprise) and is beautiful and amazing enough to change that guy from a jerk into a perfect man who is completely in love with her.

       Look around you, how many of your friends are saying maybe this time he’ll: quit smoking, stop cheating, be nice, or this time he’ll treat me right. We’re all delusional – they’re fictional movies for a reason. People can only change if they want to, and if someone is a jerk or walks all over you, you have to realize that sometimes a second chance is all that they deserve. Sometimes it’s best to let go of all the pain, all the false hope we’ve put in people who have done nothing to earn it.  

      Everyone deserves a fairy tale, and we’ll all find ours someday. But the people who will make our lives feel like the movies are the ones who appreciate us and make us feel special without even trying. Those are the people we don’t have to change and they’re nothing like the movies – because they’re more amazing than we could ever imagine.

I get by with a little help from my friends

It's the easiest thing in the world to give up. It's so easy to let a friendship fall apart, and it's so easy for distance and time to affect everything you used to know. High school is a time in your life when people walk in and out of your life with ease; everyone is changing and growing and not all people change and grow in the same ways. Friends move away and the distance can be hard, or they become someone you never thought they would and do things that would shock you. Through the past 4 years I've learned a lot. I've lost a lot of people in my life, and people you never thought would leave, do.

Through all the bullshit and all the pain, through every bad fight and every boy that threatened friendships, I'm so lucky. I have the greatest friends in the world, I have people I can trust with my life and I know they won't leave. How many people can say that? I think we spend so much time trying to find ourselves that sometimes we lose track of the amazing people in our lives that help hold us together. Sometimes people change in ways you can't understand, and sometimes friendships fall apart - but that doesn't mean that they can't be fixed. The greatest friendships are the ones you work for, the ones that you don't give up on no matter what happens. I've found out which people that I can count on and I couldn't be happier. Your friends shape who you are, they help you through the toughest of times, and they are the ones who make you strong when you want to be weak. 

It's so scary to me that in 6 months my entire world is going to change, but I'm so thankful that I will have the greatest people in the world no matter what happens next.

Fearless

"Fearless is not the absence of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. Fearless is falling madly in love again, even though you've been hurt before. Fearless is walking into your freshman year of high school at fifteen. Fearless is getting back up and fighting for want over and over again...even though every time you've tried before , you've lost. It's fearless to have faith that someday things will change. Fearless is having the courage to say goodbye to someone who only hurts you, even if you can't breathe without them. I think it's fearless to fall for your best friend, even though he's in love with someone else. And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they'll never stop doing, I think it's fearless to stop believing them. It's fearless to say "you're NOT sorry", and walk away. I think loving someone despite what people think is fearless. I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is fearless. Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright...That's fearless too. But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. 
because i think love is fearless"
- Taylor Swift.


Life is painful and everything worthwhile comes at a cost. But we are all so lucky and we don’t even know it. You may have just gotten your heart broken; you may miss someone an incredible amount – but think about how lucky you are to have someone that amazing to miss. You’re lucky because no matter how much pain you are going through; that’s life. You’re living. The people who are living life without pain are the ones who are missing out. They’re the people who shy away from opportunity, hide from love, and most of all ignore their own feelings. They won’t look back and see a life full of broken hearts and scrapes and bruises, but they won’t look back and have the memories either. You may be in pain now but that pain won’t last forever, and once you move on you can put yourself out there again. As much as it hurts you won’t find happiness hiding behind closed doors. If you want a change in your life, you need to do something new. Don’t sit around and wait for something to happen to you, go out and make it happen.
What is it you want? Why aren't you going for it? Chose today to live; live to the fullest because you have no idea how much longer you’ll have. Every day is a new opportunity to change your dream into your reality.  Why wait? Go out and be fearless today ♥

The Search for Something More

      Music is something that can change your mood, change how you feel – and if it’s the best song, it can change your life. Music is incredible; it can get you through the roughest times, and it can help you express yourself when you’re at your worst or your best. There is a song out there that expresses how you feel at any moment. Everyone has that one song we can listen to a thousand times without getting sick of it. But seriously, how many times have you turned on the radio and heard that new pop song on every single station? It’s becoming redundant.  The most popular songs are the ones that have to be so edited out due to inappropriate language or theme; so you can barely understand what the artist is talking about. In case you're unsure what it is they’re trying to say, you can assume the song is about sex, drugs...or sex, or drugs.       

      Not to say that every song today is about those things; but the ones that aren’t inappropriate have their downfalls as well. Today’s artists lack creativity, for example, 3 of the most played songs on the radio are called Grenade, Dynamite, and Firework. And really, Can someone please just tell Rihanna her name already? We listen to songs that lack stories, the majority of songs on the radio are repetitive, and it is starting to make our generation look incredibly superficial, simple, and sex obsessed. Music producers and executives think we are a generation that wants to hear the same 5 songs on the radio every day; but I believe we could be so much more than that.  I think our generation needs to wake up and realize that there is more to the world than the new Justin Bieber song (what happens when he hits puberty? Fans will be shocked) Come on people - Justin Bieber has more followers on twitter than the President. We need to change. I dare you to listen to something other than mainstream music. Think for yourself, find your favourite music instead of what society has deemed ‘today’s best music’.