Monday, January 01, 2007
A Tribute to 2006
I'm writing this with almost no idea where to begin. So many things have happened this year. A lot of different people, events and places have changed the way I view myself and the world. Too many little things to mention. None big enough to focus on.
I must say I am sorry it is gone. I faced 2006 with fear. I knew the fate that waited for me. What I didn't know was how it was going to affect me. And this
unknown left me paralyzed. I didn't take enough chances this year. I didn't break enough hearts. I didn't fail enough times. I didn't cry enough times. Now I sit here and think about how another precious year has passed me by.
But it has been a good year. I was hurt but I recovered. I failed but I picked myself up. I was weak, I still am, but my friends have made me strong. I lost but I gained in the end.
It was a year like no other. I've had to grow up. I've had to take responsibility. I've had to define, even learn, who I am. The time has passed may not have all been used well, but they were beautiful. I would never do them over.
I guess this tribute is to leave 2006 behind. Closure, if you will. So that I may live for this day, and not the one that has already left me.
Here's to living for the moment.
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kitten posted @ 11:13 PM
Randoms things about me
I'm Kitten :)
I get a year older every 17th of August. I am a Leo, and I carry all traits associated with that zodiac.
Right now, I'm twenty years old and I'm loving it. They say we're only as young as we feel. I feel like I'm five.
I would never leave the house without my Zen and my E2. The latter connects me to the world; the former takes me away from it.
If I were to choose a word to describe my life, that word would be
crazy.
I am in love with the stars. I am in love with the rain.
I am a Rutgers University student, and I want to graduate with an English degree. An English-Psych double major would be nice. An English-TCert would be even better.
I want to be a teacher. I want to be writer. I want to be both.
I thrive on indie and emo. Mae, The Spill Canvas, Copeland and Daphne Loves Derby - these are the guys that I listen to. I listen to other bands here and there, but mostly those are the bands I follow. That being said, I'm a mainstream moron.
There's no feeling more lovely than being carried away. People don't usually think of me as somebody spontaneous, but I like being swept away as much as the next girl.
I fall in love easily, but it is really hard for me to fall out. Really hard.
I am very fragile.
I am tolerant of almost everything except one thing: intolerance.
I am an extensive reader. I thirst only for meaning, nothing else.
I love my friends <3
I am extremely spiritual but not religious.
Things I want to do in my life time
Get a job.
- Save up enough money to go back home -
wherever that is if I ever had one before I'm 40.
- Write a book.
- Sing for a Disney movie.
- Buy a house on top of a hill.
- Go bunjee jumping.
Travel halfway around the world.
- See Italy.
Find the one person who makes my heart beat faster and slower at the same time.
Draw and paint.
Learn how to play Sudoku.
- Volunteer for American/Philippine Red Cross or UNHCR.
Quit smoking.
Kitten recommends:
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince
- Trina Paulus' Hope for the Flowers
- Paulo Coehlo's Eleven Minutes
- Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych and Other Stories
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs
- J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye
- Neil Gaiman's American Gods
- Anne Rice's Beauty's Release
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs
- Douglas F. Hofstadter's Godel Escher Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- Leonard Mlodinow's Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life
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