Poetry...

I wish I were a flower
Growing wild and free;
I wish I had the power
To be whatever I want to be;
To feel like in this hour
That I'm not hyped on green tea;
This book leaving me sour
Oh, you bastard psychology;
I smell... Indeed I need to shower
But not before I actually study;

Oh how productive I can be
When my mind is not on psychology;
I dream, I think, I am
I could even cook a rack of lamb;
I could even bake
My favorite cake;
Of Chocolate Chip
Inside A Bacon Strip?
Oh Strep Throat
How You Love to Gloat;
I Get You Twice A Year
Oh How You Make Me Sneer;

Hiding Place

Where's the place you go to hide?

Gym... 

    Mall... 

      Nook...

        Cranny...
          In a Box...
            Under a tree...
               In a bush...
                 Behind a door...
                    In the library stacks...

                       Maybe in a Closet...

                     Or Perhaps The Place No One Expects, Where You Blend In To Your Environment So Perfectly, It's Like You're Lost Within Your Own World... 

 The Place You Go when You're:

Hurt,

Confused,

Tired, or just

Happy because it's the one place you know you are Safe.

Point of View

Jail Cell Window outlooking into a cloudy haze of a day.

Perhaps a ladder, flat on a stone sidewalk.

Maybe the simplest, shortest game of hopscotch ever played.

An ambulance stretcher with stains and scars of the day.

Or maybe just a doodle one does when you feel like you've got nothing left except for the pencil in your hand ..

Exercise

-ing my right to do whatever I please.

-ing in a the gym is really mundane but for some reason, I just refused to leave today.  I literally ran 3 mi and walked 10 because I had so much on my mind.

-ing the right as a best friend to call you out on your bullshit and telling you yes....you really did hurt my feelings...how are we going to fix this?

-ing the right to turn off my phone and live a day without technology tomorrow (I might die..We'll see Wednesday)

-ing the right as a single girl to go on dates and meet new people just because I can

-ing my artistic side by starting my journal again and drawing at the wee hours of the morning when a huge thunderstorm sounds like it's about to unleash the wrath of God on my poor little townhouse.

-ing the fact that I do not have any exams this week and I'm being productive by starting/finishing projects that are due in the next few days/week

-ing the fact that even though it's by birthday this weekend, I am not going to have/go to a party.  I am visiting my family in New Mexico because tradition is so much better than a random college experience

-ing my brain right now and found a new way to look a word and all of the meanings it can have. Idea of the day: what if more people exercised their brain? The world could actually be a better place if people weren't so darn selfish and thought about the people they're affecting.

Kids Today....

Is it Just me Or are teenagers today becoming increasingly disconnected from the rest of the world? When I was little I thought Teddy and Abe were the coolest guys in history, and today, people don't even have real first names and spell everything without syllables, proper grammer, and they use numbers and add "z"'s to every word. How do they expect future generations to learn anything if today we are stunting knowledge and learning from pure laziness?

My Hope In Humanity lies within the little kid I babysit.  This 7yr old is on the chess team and is reading the Harry Potter series in the 1st grade!!!

P.s. Does anyone find it ironic that despite this absolutely inspiring statement about the progression of culture (or lack thereof), that it still says "Historically Hardcore" at the bottom of the picture.  Really People?  I'm not going to use my typical response of "Grow Up" because over the past few days I learned that I really do not want to (another story for another time).  Instead my new phrase will be "You're wasting a Perfectly Good Brain".

Oh Isn't that So True?! People don't actually need to "grow up" or be "more mature", you just need to locate your brain, and actually "Use It" because if you think about it, your "mind" isn't an actual object someone can locate. Instead, it's this metaphorical battery that fuels your physical body to react to it's current reality.