Btw, since it's so rare to get a day to do the things you want (whether that's drama-ing, shopping, gaming, sleepin till 1pm or chilling,) I've compiled some short para's I wrote n a couple of quotes I really liked to hopefully inspire or b a lighthouse when a bleak haze refuses to leave:
SUCCESS To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.Ralph Waldo Emerson Success in life is a matter not so much of talent or opportunity as of concentration and perseverance.C. W. Wendte Success is a journey, not a destination. As much as we like to aim for that highest ranking, that highest status, or highest pay, it isn't about finally getting there(though it would b great) one learns far more on the path to their dreams, to the stars, then standing up there when you get there. There are infinite definitions to success, (n many other words) but its presence can mean happiness, its absence desperation. We all strive for it, but few realize that for the vine to grow and stretch towards the sun, it's the fruit they bear on it's way that make it truly beautiful and worthy.
RISK Life is a risk itself. For to laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out for another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is to risk dying. To hope is to risk despair. To fly is to risk falling. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. One who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing and therefore is nothing. They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live. A man whose life is without risk, forfeits his freedom.
PERSERVERANCE When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.Harriet Beecher Stowe This years all about perseverance. To say: Ok, no matter what, I'm going to do what I want to do, I'm going to fulfill my dreams and am going to do whatever I need to make it happen. I'm not going lose faith or hope, because I know I can do it. Cause' if everyone else can, then I can too. Whatever life throws at me, to be successful is to keep standing up after falling down. Through tears, smiles, tantrums and fear, I will, I can persevere. HOPE Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. Hope is that ray of light that helps success grow in the fertile soil of hard work and determination. Hope, is simply there, no matter buried how deep, during the darkest times in life. As I said before, to hope is to risk disappointment. But without it, life would already be a disappointment, and we would be forever lost in the dark shadows of lost faith. So by holding this candle of flickering but omnipresent light and risking the possibility of being burnt, is it not better to see the light and feel its warmth, then never lighting it in fear of maybe losing it?
KINDNESS The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.William Wordsworth
So smile at a stranger, donate to those lil boxes for charity, help a friend in need, or make someone laugh. You never noe, you could've made someone's crappy day a whole lot better, even if for the briefest moment. But sometimes a moment is all we need.
Friendship:
"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil." -- Baltasar Gracian I honestly don't noe what I would do without my friends. They make me stronger, give me support, a laugh, a hug, a chance. Friends truly make life a lot more fun, a lot more bearable, a lot more happy, so hold them tight and never forget the ones that are always there, the ones that make an imprint in ur mind and soul, the ones that change you for the better, for good friends are hard to come by.
