Crossroads of the Future

Have you ever stopped and pondered on a decision? Even one as mundane as whether you would get up immediately with your alarm or hit the snooze? If you got up, would you go get breakfast immediately or take a shower? If you stayed in bed, would you hit the snooze yet again or finally haul your sore limbs up from under the warm covers? I used to think that way, once upon a time, and then a book my mother got for me, Blink of an Eye by Ted Dekker, brought up the thought process again. In fact, it brought up several thought processes, one of the most prominent being my future.

NaNoWriMo – Day 4

November is important for three reasons: 1) I was born this month a couple years ago, 2) Thanksgiving, and 3) NaNoWriMo, which stands for National Novel Writing Month. This is the month in which thousands of people all over the country endeavor to do the impossible: write a novel in a month. More specifically, write 50,000 words of a novel in a month. I’ve done this personal competition for the past four years, and it just felt wrong to me to forgo the pleasure of wasting so much time over a plot that I would never actually finish.

But alas, yet again, I was dumb.   

When the unthinkable happens: there’s a post for that

This post, that is. And I’d like to apologize in advance for any unfortunates who come across this post, as it was written right after the unveiling of a test score that I had been waiting for ever so religiously. The reason why I’m mad, dear unfortunate reader, is because I can’t possibly understand how, or why, this happened.

Creativity is Addicting…

…and I’ll tell you why – because there are no rules.

I can make anything, dream everything, make time move quickly and suddenly come to a halt. I watch lives change, end, and start again. I make friends, kill my enemies, kill my friends and make more enemies. I travel to worlds unheard of, and places I’ve never been. I can fly, I can love, I can experience a tragedy and still come back to reality no more the worse for where.

Or do I truly come back unscathed?

Finding Love

A conversation with a friend of mine got me thinking, and I’ve decided that there’s truth in the saying “follow your heart.”

Not the stereotypical “follow your heart” that you hear ’bout in the movies, as it’s most often interpreted to mean “follow your emotions at that one point in time.” Because love is not an emotion. It’s a connection, a dedication to keep someone close, to help them, to do anything for them. That is the kind of love that marriages that last are based on. The kind of unchanging love that goes through storms and hell-fire because of that dedication.

When the goin’ gets tough…

… the first thought that came to my mind was, “How can I get out of this?”

Of course, it’s impossible to get out of a college essay assignment, especially if said assignment has been assigned for the past three weeks. The only notable thing about this situation is that it is the longest essay I’ve ever had to write up to this point, a whole six pages, and while I’ve been able to BS a couple essays back in the day, I’m not sure just how able I am to fill up a whole six pages with ideas about nothing pulled out from my…