Peace

Peace is a simple idea. Not a lot of experience or literacy is needed to understand it, or know what it is. And yet it is so complicated that people go their whole lives searching for it, fighting for it. Even more, bystanders contemplate if they should support the pursuit for peace. Why?

This is what the search for peace looks like. Even peace, comes at a price.
It's worth it, I'm sure, no, I know. 

Smile

Have you smiled yet today?

Here's to looking up

Hello, how are you? Funny, you're reading my blog. I honestly don't expect people to read the words I write. I know I tend to rant or try to write like a phenomenal writer so thank you for putting up with my first few sentences. And if you keep reading, thank you again. I'm starting this blog because I have lots of thoughts I'd like to write down and release them out into the world instead of bottling them in a notebook that I'll stash away in my room. I also want to develop some writing skills, my finished products always seem juvenile. To be honest, I'm afraid of what the world can do with my words (if anything at all...chances are this will only be another blog that exists) but I think it's time to to throw away some inhibitions. So any thoughts you have of me, spit it out. I want to know what you think(and only you, not what you imagine I or others want you to think). One more thing, I want to say thank you for each time you read my blog. I take it as a compliment (whether or not to you mean it to be) that you've spent the time to even glance at it, I am truly and sincerely grateful to no end. Now away with the formalities....

Looking up means a lot of things to me. It means being positive and learning to stay that way, even when the road gets rough. I'm a huge fan of sliver linings, a hopeless believer that they exist. To me challenges are just an opportunity to test and show off my potential, revealing how much is really possible. Without a challenge, how will I grow and learn and be a dynamic individual? Pain as well has a silver lining. Without it, how will I know what a sunny day feels like? How laughing is a gift? Or simply, how much I can withstand? 

Looking up also means taking full advantage of the view around me. Story lines often have a character falling to their demise because of something falling from above, so why doesn't anyone ever look up? Or behind, left, right, and down? There's so much to see and do and taste! A moment is too short for anything! A view can change in an instant and above all, it is unique. There is something to embrace and inhale from each mental and physical view. I try my best to live this way because 1) it's the moment I am living, I can't remove myself from living and 2) living feels so much more worthwhile this way, it can even give gloom some light. 


That's what my blog is all about: different views. Obviously I'll be posting my own but please please PLEASE agree and/or disagree, I'd love to hear what you think! I like nothing more than to learn to understand the many stories of one subject because we all have our own opinions to offer (which is another wonderful gift!).


So here's to looking up. May you and I look up and down, left and right more often. And may you and I learn from each view and embrace the powers it brings. 

Looking up on my way to class....I adore photography