Today I went time traveling.
I know... you're deeply confused and/or questioning my sanity at that last sentence.
I went time traveling.
Allow me to elaborate.
Time travel (noun): To go back and read through old journals filled with pictures, words, and more from the past.
It makes me forever grateful that I journal and write everything down and save things. I can literally go back down memory road.
The above pictures are from 2012.
I H I G H L Y recommend journaling.
Now I present to you, five years ago words that retain every ounce of feeling and relevance.
I was born on October 14, 1989 which makes me 22 years young.
I could go on about how I adore long walks on the beach, how I am a Grey's An-addict, how I am obsessed with One Tree Hill, how pink and purple are my absolute favorite colors, how I love rain, how spiders terrify me, and all the other millions of little details that make me, me, but I assume if you're reading this that you either know me or have read previous entries and know me.
Otherwise, first of all: you don't know me.
Second of all: you don't know me.
Even you who think you know me probably don't entirely so never make assumptions. I might just surprise you or sweep you off your feet.
Here are some details relevant to my life...
I wish I lived in a castle or my dream house... a white house with blue shutters and a porch that wraps around the entire house over looking a river...
aka the house from The Notebook.
A girl can dream, even when she's awake [especially then], and boy or girl do I dream and believe and wish and hope and pray and wait.
Family is everything to me.
My home.
My purpose.
My center.
My love.
I love my family and friends more than words could express or describe. This goes for my few true best friends as well.
I will give you everything I have; the good, the bad.
I am LDS (Mormon)
Families are made and meant to be together forever. I know it's true with all of my heart. Love and charity are the answers and way to live. I know the Savior, my Savior, Jesus Christ, died for me so I could truly live. I seek to emulate this kind of unconditional love to those I come across. I know my Heavenly Father loves me and has a beautiful life in store and ahead of me. He hears my prayers and answers them.
The same goes for you.
I hope, but cannot promise, that when you read this, as you read these words, this blog will become a place you can go where everything's better and everything's safe.
People always leave. Sometimes they come into my life and then just go, leaving without another word or explanation. They will stay in my heart forever. And sometimes people come back. The most important ones, the ones that matter, will come into my life and never leave, stay forever, clinging to my heart and never letting go.
I am a flight risk with the fear of falling, wondering why we bother with love if it never lasts.
What this world needs is a return to sweetness and decency. Sometimes I feel incredibly disconnected, really uncomfortable in my own skin, kind of a sense of un-belonging, like I don't fit in this world. Like I was born at the wrong time, the wrong decade. Just alone. I want someone to want me, to fight for me, to pick me, to choose me, to love me, but I'll never admit it in words by saying it out loud.
I wish for impossible things. I write the things I cannot say. I think we've got one life, one chance, and what we do with it is up to us. I sometimes wonder if maybe I'm just destined to be alone. Maybe I am currently single but it doesn't mean I'm weak, it means I'm strong enough to wait, and trust that he is out there, the man I deserve. I'll close with a poem...
The Bride
I wonder if ever
I will be a bride
with a white lace gown
standing in front of everyone
looking beautiful
because someone
loves me
that much
When it comes to the heart, things are never simple.
The heart has a language of it's own. You have to take chances and follow your heart while fighting against the doubts and overthinking in your head. It's heartbreak warfare.
I think one of the things that scares me is this: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by or you pass them by.
-Me, 7/3/12
I'm going to end with some quotes from my journal that day penned by other people.
"Be bold and be brave and trust in your heart. It knows things you cannot imagine. Trust that it understands better than you can ever realize. It can never be bravery if you never feel scared."
-Tyler Knott Gregson
"You, and no other and for you I truly hope, me, above all else."
-Tyler Knott Gregson
"I wonder, every moment I write I wonder, what will be the final word I ever write to you? If I am honest, which I always and only am with you, I already know the final and last word I will ever say, write, or breathe to you. I know it down to the letter itself, the concluding letter of the crowning word, and it will belong, married forever, to the word 'you', which will follow directly the word 'love', and that word will be the exact and penultimate word that follows the word 'I' I and you and only the word Love will separate us."
-Tyler Knott Gregson
"and maybe we have to break every to make something better out of ourselves."
-Fight Club
"The world and we are ending every minute of every day. It is up to us to decide if this is the single most horrific thing we will ever hear or the most breathtakingly beautiful."
-Tyler Knott Gregson
"I want us. I want to swim in the way you make me feel. I want it to soak my clothes until they become a skin, and I want that skin to soak into my bones. I want to become the way it feels in the instant you stare at me from across this crowded place."
-Tyler Knott Gregson
"This is what I believe to be true: You have to do everything you can, and if you stay positive, you have a shot at a silver lining."
-Silver Linings Playbook
"Nothing in this world is nearly as invincible as it might seem."
-Passage on the Titanic
"We are ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day."
-Brad Meltzer
"We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs."
-Phillip James Bailey
"It's true that not everything is meant to be. But always remember that everything is at least worth a try."
"You don't care about impossible.
Something I wish I could learn from you.
Write me down as the best idea you had.
Watch the firefly cause I struck the match tonight."
-Amber Pacific
"The most difficult phase of life is not when no one understands you. It is when you don't understand yourself."
"We don't need boys, we just need Jack Dawson."
-Me, to Brie (the best friend) as we watched Titanic
"You're so far away or am I just out of reach?"
-Matthew Perryman Jones
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