Never alone• Show poetry

"You have strengths that amaze me, you can handle trouble and carry heavy burdens, you hold happiness, love and opinions. You smile when you feel like screaming. You sing when you feel like crying. Cry when you're happy, and laugh when you're afraid, your love is unconditional, there's only one thing wrong with you and that is that sometimes you forget what you are worth." (me as described by a friend)

Sometimes we put up walls not to keep people out,
But to see who cares enough to knock them down.

Unless you've lived my life,
Don't judge me because you don't know,
Never have and never will know
Every little thing and detail about me.

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along..."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"The truth is I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me..."
-Marilyn Monroe

"Some people are settling down, some people are settling, and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies."
-Carrie Bradshaw

"I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful.
I sin, but I'm not the DEVIL.
I'm good, but I'm not an angel."
-Marilyn Monroe

"I'm through accepting limits 'Cuz someone says they're so Some things I cannot change But till I try, I'll never know!"
-Wicked

I am spontaneous.

Music is my life, I can't stand silence.
I sing all the time.
I dance at the oddest moments.

I regret nothing. Everything I have done, every decision I have made has led me to this point, made me this person, and there is not a thing in the world I would change about that.

I'm an artist.
I'm a writer.
I'm a dancer.

I went to Grace College for a year and a half, but it wasn't the right place for me.
I'm obsessed with learning. That's why I have three majors and a minor (possibly two).

I'm extremely close to my grandparents.
I'm not close to my parents though.

I'm shy.

I have a passion for art: written, visual, and performing.

I love going to coffee shops, especially neighborhood ones. I enjoy writing at them, or just sitting and people watching

Midnight movie showings are fun, as are drive in movie theaters

I love the city, but I love being able to escape

I'm an open minded girl
I'll give anything, anyone a try and chance
I don't like to judge people, I'm not perfect and neither are you

I love the sun, but I also love the rain - especially the smell right before it starts and right after it starts

I can be a girlie girl, but I'm not afraid to get dirty

I was born on the surface of the sun...I get cold in 90 degree weather.
I love the beach.
I'm a southern girl at heart.

I enjoy all seasons, but wish winter was shorter.

I try to find the beauty in all things.

I don't have all the answers, and I don't know how everything will turn out, but I trust my heart and instinct.

Quotes that I live by (some are mine, some are not):

~ Speak your mind,
Even if your voice shakes.

~ Live right now; just be yourself.
It doesn't matter if it's good enough for someone else.

~ Imperfection is beauty,
Madness is genius,
and it's better to be
Absolutely Ridiculous
than Absolutely Boring.

~ What's meant to be will always find it's way

~ 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 A 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 Try is to Risk Failure.
But Risks Must be Taken, because the Greatest Hazard in Life is to Risk Nothing.
The Person who Risks Nothing, Does Nothing, Has Nothing, Is Nothing.
They May Avoid Suffering and Sorrow but They Cannot Learn, Feel, Change, Grow, Live, Love.
Chained by Their Attitudes They are a Slave, They Have Forfeited Their Freedom.
Only A Person Who Risks is Free.

~ I think I'll try defying gravity.

~ They tell you what you need to know.
They tell you who you need to be.
But everything inside you knows there's more than what you've heard.
There's so much more than empty conversations filled with empty words. . .

~No Day But Today...

~True love never lives happily ever after - true love has no ending.