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I've been writing now for about 8 years now on and off and with each new experience my writing changes, I write everything from dark poetry to love poetry. I'm a psychology major with a minor in criminology in the hopes of continuing onto forensic psychology. I'm a generally happy person but I have a pretty bleak outlook on humanity as a whole because people just keep disappointing me with all their ignorance and hate. Its one of the reasons that I continue to write. I'm proudly gay and I'm not going to change for anyone so please keep any negative and other opinions to yourselves.

I like many writers like Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Shakespeare, pretty much every Greek epic writer you can think of, Jane Austen, Erskine Caldwell, Flannery O'Connor.
I love artwork and taking two semesters of art history has given me a deep and fond appreciation for all kinds of art. I like Goya, El Greco, Raphael, Donatello, Caravaggio, Salvador Dali, Albrecht Durer, Titian, Botticelli, Monet, Manet, Munch, Van Gogh, Artemisia Gentileschi, and many many more.

I like coffee, wine, gay men, good books, rainy days, hippie stores, art, flowers, hearts, earrings, piercings, peach ice tea, good music from bands I find, candles, shoes, purses, cats, swimming, english comedy, red patent leather, scarves, coloring my hair red, hanging out with friends, trying to help people.



My Favorite Music:
Korn, Boyce Avenue, RA, Rise for Order, Rides Again, My Darkest Days, Coal Chamber, Lacuna Coil, Lullacry, Evanescence, Staind, Disturbed, Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace, Seether, Radiohead, The Real Tuesday Weld, Paul Tiernan, Devendra Banhart, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Stone Sour, Cold, Michael Buble, Framing Hanley, Lit, One Less Reason, Rev Theory, The Fray, Maroon 5, 3 Doors Down, Teddy Geiger, Stevie Wonder, Tony Benette, Nick Lachey, Pink, Sarah McLachlan, Jem, Michelle Branch, Natalie Imbruglia, Lola Ray, Maria Mena, Michael Jackson, Nelly Furtado, Beyonce, Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, Skillet, State of Shock, Art of Dying, Forty Foot Echo, Stutterfly, One Mans Opinion, Flow, Living Syndication, James Blunt, Lifehouse, Kelly Clarkson, Daughtry, Hinder, Taproot, Chevelle, Hellogoodbye, Flyleaf, Rihanna, Katy Rose, Self Against City, Evans Blue, Red, 32 Leaves, Mudvayne, Buckcherry, HURT, Smile Empty Soul, 16 Frames, The Audition, Hundredfold, Boys Like Girls, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Shinedown, Matt White, Plumb, Cascada, Drowning Pool, Fair to Midland, 10 Years, John Mayer, Basshunter, Course of Nature, Billie Holiday, Jane Monheit, Ray Charles, The Beatles, Strata, Secret Empire, Endless Hallway, Sita, Katy Perry, Kate Voegele, Marie Digby, Saving Abel, Robert Pattinson, Iron & Wine, Nirvana, Ashes Divide, Another Black Day, Black Stone Cherry, Halestorm.

Composers:
Beethoven , Bach, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Vivaldi.

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"- Erich Fromm

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."-Ghandi

Alfred Adler: "To me it appears that every child, indeed every human being, for some reason, is continually striving to answer questions, to overcome difficulties, to solve riddles, and to develop himself in some degree towards a self-satisfying completion, the full achievement of his life purpose. No matter what may be the age of an individual, you will find tendencies which have their beginnings--if one may venture to use the phrase--in the dawn of life, and which, by their persistence, ever demand a development to a higher level." (From "The Cause and Prevention of Neuroses," IZIP, Vol 5, 1927.)

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work; you don't give up."-Anne Lamott

Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart."-Unknown

"Love is merely madness"- William Shakespeare

"You don't have a soul. You have a body. You are a soul."
C. S. Lewis

"The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live."
Albert Einstein

"No sooner met but they looked; No sooner looked but they loved; No sooner loved but they sighed; No sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; No sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy."-William Shakespeare

"Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired."- Erik Erikson 'About Hope'

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"- Sigmund Freud