why hello journal, glad you're still around ( Read more... )

i've been thinking a lot about love lately. not necessarily the romantic kind, but the 'love your neighbor as yourself' one. i've always simplified my faith as "love God and love others, that's all there is," but now i'm starting to realize i don't really know what love is, which complicates that whole simplistic answer quite a bit. this whole ( Read more... )

sleepless. restless. a flood of anxiousness creeping through my veins. is this what it feels like, living on the verge? straddling confusion and disaster like they're small stones in a rushing river, a slippery path one must dare to take in order to reach greatness. if this is my defining moment, don't let me run away, don't let me back down. give ( Read more... )

once upon a time there was a girl. and at times she felt lost and confused, and tired of life. as if she were walking through the thick of a dark and misty wood, not able to see where she was going or where she had been, and no sense of direction at all. and she felt scared and alone, and not herself, and as much as she searched for some way out, ( Read more... )

these days it's been rediculously cold around here. abnormally cold. whoever doesn't believe that global climate change is for real needs to come visit. i hope it's becoming convinvingly obvious to everyone that with all the freak weather we've been having throughout the entire world... our earth isn't happy ( Read more... )

i've made it one of my new years goals to journal more. actually, i wrote down "journal once a week," but since it's already the 9th and this is my first attempt, it looks like i'll have to be lenient on that rule ( Read more... )

sometimes i get so frusterated waiting for my life to 'begin.' and when i say life, i automatically mean career because for some reason my mind makes those two synonymous with each other. i expect that tomorrow i will wake up with my perfect 'life,' the one i've created in my head. the one i'm waiting ever so patiently to materialize in front of my ( Read more... )

this is not how i pictured my life right now,
this is not how it's supposed to be.

today i am not 'ok ( Read more... )

right now i need a reassurance.
i need to feel myself again.
i need to hear a familiar voice,
reminding me.
just reminding me of me.