Not much to lose but so much to gain.

I have spent so much time on ICT coursework over the past month, I can honestly say if I see another spreadsheet or powerpoint I am going to crack! Even as we speak, I am meant to be getting on with my project but I just can't face it. If only my blog counted towards it, I would have the motivation to try. Alas, it doesn't but hope you like it anyways. Enjoy:



"We cling to music, to poems, to quotes, to writing, to art because we desperately want to feel together. We want to know that we are not going crazy and that somewhere else out there, someing is feeling exactly what you are feeling. We love everything that is tied up neatly, easily, and simply- but when we can not find that, it scares the hell out of us. To not know the next step, or where things are headed. Being unsure is never part of our plan. But it's those moments, the ones where you risk it and take a chance, regardless of how vulnerable it makes us, that help us remember that life is larger that we'll ever know."



"Here I am. So old, and yet so young. Stuck, suspended somewhere between adulthood and a child's fantasy."



"Mother and father had always made me feel that I was important, and now, all of a sudden, I realised I wasn't. How can you be important when no one knows about you? It's very frightening to realise you aren't important afterall."



"Create. Imagine. Inspire. Share something beautiful. Meet new people. Make someone's day. Follow your dreams. Live your life to its full potential. Just live, damnit, live!"



"You get a strange feeling when you're about to leave a place. Like, you'll not only miss the people you love but you'll miss the person you are now at this time and plae because you'll never be this way ever again."



"I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And perhaps we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we came from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel ok about them."



"She says she doesn't believe in love, but how could she at this age? Do you really know what you want for the rest of your life at sixteen? Do you want to put your heart and soul into someone, because everything around her shows that people get their heart broken."



"Here's to the people that will never have 100percent confidence in what they do, and the people who are ok with that."



"Whatever souls are made of- his and mine are the same."



"No matter how frightened and discouraged I may become about the future, I look forward to it. In spite of everything that I see all around me everyday, I have a shaky assurance that everything will turn out fine; and I don't think I'm the only one. Why else would the phrase "Everything is alright?" ease a troubled place in so many of us? We just don't know, we never know, yet we have so much faith. We hold our hands over our hearts and lean forward."



"We live in a difficult world, a broken world. Life is hard for most people most of the time. We believe that everyone can relate to pain, that all of us live with questions and all of us get stuck in moments. You need to know that you're not alone in the places you feel stuck."



"This is failure. It's that moment when you realise that a choice you made, or something you did, has fully changed the course of your life. But what matters even more than this truth is what you choose to do once you know it. The tendancy may be to curl up in the fetal position and wait for things to improve. But if you can somehow manage to take a breath, and look around you, you might just spot another path you hadn't seen before. It may not be easy to walk, especially the beginning. But all that really matters is that it's there."- Sarah Dessen.



Finis.