Where Have I Been All Your Life

Heeeeelllllllllooooooo Everyone!

I know, I know, I’m terrible, and I do this to you all the time. I say “oh, I totally promise you I will get on updating this blog more” or “yes, I’ve been so busy and fabulous, but I will definitely make time for you more often dear readers” and all that other jazz. You feel hurt, betrayed even by these flippant remarks. I get that. Truly, I do. Nobody likes to be brushed off, least of all you. It’s understandable. That’s why this time I absolutely, positively, guarantee I will be better.

I know, you think you have heard it all before, no excuse is going to change your mind or soften your heart this time. Rightfully so, but just take a step back and remember that you love me. That love is worth fighting for! You and I have a long road ahead of us, and you are just going to have to trust me on this one. I promise you will not regret it!

They like to be my friend, and I know, deep down, you like it too.

Chasing the Dream

Chasing the dream. This is a phrase that is a lot harder to do than it is to say. Dreams are big, colorful, bright, sometimes glitter-filled, and most importantly, they require a lot more than half-hearted devotion if they are meant to come true.

While dreams are not really hard to come up with, they can be difficult to follow through on. Life gets in the way. Getting a job that pays the bills often trumps anything else. Even so, is it wrong to want a salary that can afford a nice lifestyle, even if it isn’t what you dreamed up originally? I don’t think so, but I also think that the dream should never be put on the back shelf, gathering dust, while you have that twinge of regret that continues to grow until it consumes your entire being. Nobody wants to live in regret, but I think that it sets in as soon as a dream is forgotten.

Love her or hate her, Katy Perry and her movie Katy Perry:Part of Me is really inspirational in the dream department. She is someone who really succeeded in chasing her dreams, even when people were telling her that her dreams needed to be different, that she needed to be different. After seeing her movie last night, I felt really awestruck at how much she has accomplished, and how she has stayed true to herself through it all. As a fellow quirky and strange person I really respect her for sticking to her self-proclaimed “weirdness”, and it inspires me to do the same.

For Halloween I tried to channel Katy Perry’s weirdness with my own take on Kitty Purry. I also wanted to see [your] Peacock, thanks Tori. It made everyone want to say meow, and we all lived out our Teenage Dream while being Wide Awake among a few California Gurls and it was Not Like the Movies. (See what I did there?)

There are so many ways to keep a dream alive, but they all require dedication. For me, I want to continue writing my whole life. Whether that be on a blog, in a major publication, maybe even a book, the possibilities are endless. All I know is that I want to continue to do it. Everyone has something that they love, something that makes them happy and excited, and that something is worth pursuing.

Life is the journey in which we are able to do anything we want to do. Why shouldn’t chasing our dreams be at the very top of that list?