Summer

I love summer.  It makes me feel so free, I can wake up when I want, walk around barefoot, eat whatever I want, whenever I want, I can lie in the sun if I want, and swim in my pool.  Summer is freedom of expression, hot days filled with melting ice cream and not caring what you look like.  Summer is blue skies, and green grass, the smell of barbecues and freshly mown lawns.  I love summer. 

“What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.”
- Willa Sibert Cather

Graduation

I'm graduating from high school in 2 days... And the thought totally freaks me out.  Am I really ready for the 'real world'? I've spent my entire life in Christian schooling, I'm graduating with most of the same people I graduated elementary with.  The world used to seem so small and safe when I was in high school and now it just seems too large and scary.  I'm freaked out about university, and even more so for what comes after that.  I'm only seventeen and life just seems to be moving to fast.  How am I supposed to support myself? I want to be a writer but what if no one likes my writing? I'm going to miss my dysfunctional class of crazy teenagers, my school teachers who cared about my success and understood my procrastination skills, I'll even miss my bus rides to and from school.  I just want to freeze time and stay in this moment forever, this is where I'm comfortable, this is where I want to stay; but I can't.  I'm scared and I just want to run away.

TheRunaway

Twitter

Twits or

Tweets

I've have decided that all those tweeters and twits, you decide which one you are, waste all too much time documenting the small and insignificant parts of their day on Twitter. I mean I know it's supposed to connect you to the rest of the world, but honestly are you really connecting with anyone? What you and the other 15,000 million people and you're supposed to feel special? Do people really spend their time reading what Robert Pattison ate for lunch? Do they wait for Brad Pitt to say goodnight before turning out their lights? Did I honestly just spent an hour wasting my time reading these pointless bits of fluff?  I guess if you have time to waste then go ahead, read away! To the rest of the world, imagine what we could do if: the people who tweeted stopped tweeting every second of their day and the people who read their tweets stopped reading them every second of their day.  What could we accomplish? Maybe nothing, but then again I'm sure that if they put a days worth of tweets into a days worth of real writing, the world would have a lot more novels to read.  (Like millions more)

TheRunAway