thorns
So as I sat staring out the passenger’s side window maintaining my usual vacant “roadtrip face”, as Poison streams through my ear buds I got to thinking about the words. “every rose has it’s thorns.” We all know this is true, I mean we all know even the most beautiful person (inside and out) has their own faults, weather we see them or not. It is common knowledge most all humans have many of these said “faults” and it seems that we have this odd urge to tell people about them. When first meeting someone we often tell someone our bad habits and the things that are frankly not the good sides of ourselves. What confuses me is that we tell about our bad habits, we tell about our faults and the things we DON’T like about ourselves. Why on earth would we do that? Why present ourselves in this negative light? We think that talking about our negatives means “oh hey look I love myself for who I am, I can accept my flaws.” I mean, that makes sense right? But many of us find it inappropriate to say the good things about ourselves, the quality’s that WE and those around us like. We don’t want to be the asshole braggart that gets on peoples nerves, but what is wrong with saying good things about ourselves though? I mean it can be taken out of proportion but, sometimes its good for us, and our friends to hear you say something positive about yourself. Until we start looking at ourselves in a positive light, and looking at our good attributes instead of our negative ones we will never judge anyone else by their good qualities. If you want to start seeing the world in a new, more positive light, you have to start with yourself.
so in light of this, thought:
This is me:
I love, a lot. I adore smiling and laughing and honestly just love life. I suppose that is the best thing about me, that I just love living, laughing and jamming to my music randomly breaking out dancing in the halls. I can be friends with almost anyone. I can make people laugh, and cheer most up. I can listen, and understand most peoples problems. I understand, I tend not to judge, and often I know the right words to say to make someone okay. I have strong beliefs, but I am open to new ideas. I listen to the music that i like. I think that is the best thing about me, I listen to what I like. Most might not understand the importance of that, but someone might. I’ll listen to new songs, but I’m not giving up my old ones. Not for anyone. :p
speaking of which, while writing this I have listened to:
Fast as I can-Erin McKeown
More for me-Tegan & Sara
The sound of settling-Death Cab for Cutie
Seventeen Forever-Metro Station
The waiting song-Ani Difranco
AND
Lullaby-The spill canvas.
(since music is important)
–ixnay.
