"Fall mountains, just don't fall on me." - Jimi Hendrix

A lot of people in the world don't care what happens as long as its not affecting them. They know they economy is in a recession, but as long as they have their jobs everything is fine and dandy. There are homeless people living on the dirty streets of the city, but as long as they have a comfortable bed to sleep in people can't seem to find the spare change in the pockets. It really easy to turn your back on something when it isn't affecting you personally. When you actually take time to look, it may change your life. You may find yourself appreciating what you have and the people who you have with you. You don't need to change every aspect of your life, just open your mind behind your own doors.

"Do you have the time to listen to me whine?" - Green Day

Everyone needs to let out their feelings every once and a while or they might explode. Exploding is not an overstatement either. If you keep your emotions bottled up inside its the equivalent to mental suicide. The person who saves you from this is a blessing. Its the person who can sit with you listening to your problems, holding your hand while you cry. This person is your go to girl. When the world has ate your happiness for breakfast, and is coming back for dinner... she (or he) is there. Its truly incredible when you find this person. The person who will keep your secrets safe and tell you that you look pretty when your face is swollen and red from crying. Just remember, when the time comes return the favor.

"You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been." - Tim McGraw

Its so easy to look at the past and think about what might have or could have been, but its pointless. All you have is the present and if you waste it looking at the past... then you have made a mess of your preset as well. Whats done is done and all you can do is move on from there. It may take a while to move far enough from a situation where you can't feel its presents anymore, but you will. When you were little and broke your mother's favorite vase or glass... you wish you hadn't thrown that ball and were punished for a week, but how many times do you think about that day now? never. What seems so big and important at the time can disappear as quickly as the wind.

"Evil, why do you infest the purest thoughts with hatred?" - Stevie Wonder

With every good thing in life there is something evil trying to steal its perfection. A simple thought can be turned into a nightmare, even by one's own mind. There is a disease in the world where we feel that things can't remain pure. We always think "something has to go wrong" or "there has to be a catch". With these thoughts people destroy their happiness and leave themselves with the ruins to deal with. For some reason, this is easier to deal with. For the lucky people who don't feel this way, there are other people to force their evil upon them. Its difficult to see other people happier than they are, so they level the playing ground until all thats left is a battlefield.

"Thinking is the best way to travel." - The Moody Blues,

In all honesty, one of my favorite things to do is to just sit and think. For so simple of an action it can do wonders for the soul. It can clear your head and allow you time to sort through all the elements of your life. Sometimes i just lie for hours in the summer sun and retrace a certain day or moment. everything looks different when your looking back on it. You come to realize that the moments where you can recall every moment, smell, feeling, thought... are the most important. I was told once by someone close to me that "where you mind wanders, is where your heart is" and i believe that is true. Your heart can belong to many things, but they're always in the back of your mind ready to be called upon when the time comes. In the future take a moment to sit and engulf yourself in your own thoughts.

"My uniform is leather and my power is my age." - KISS

As kids we often feel like we have no say in the world, and are constantly being dragged behind by the hand of our elders, but the truth is that we command a world of our own. They can have the world of corporate business and stress. We have the world of the young and i would prefer this life any day. We can sleep late and stay up even later, living in the spur of the moment. We can love as many times as we stumble upon it, without the commitment of rings and children. We can learn for the hell of learning even though we all know that its a rare occasion. We can wear tight dresses and our clothes around our ankles and laugh to ourselves as our parents groan. We can wear to much makeup on a friday night simply for a girls night out at. Applebee's. We should enjoy these privileges while we can. Live life and the youth of the world, get a piercing while you can, and take it out when the time comes, or travel to europe for a month or two (with the excuse of studying abroad of course.) You're only young once... make it count.

"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." - Rush

You can't escape life's choices. you can sit on the sidelines and brag about how you weren't involved in a bad decision, but you are lying. You were involved. you consciously decided not to take a part in that decision. If you actually took part maybe you could have been the person to save that decision for being labeled a 'bad' one and turn it into one that can be seen as 'good'. If may seem easier at the time but a life on the side lines grows slow, lonely, and dull. You should take chances and reap the benefits that they bring you.It could be so simple as deciding where to go for dinner instead for saying 'whatever you want' or going to the pools and voting for the next president. In every sense on the meaning, its worth the risk.

"Don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to." - Fleetwood Mac

If you don't want a honest answer, a person shouldn't ask a honest question. If a person asked me what my favorite color was, i wouldn't lie and say blue because its maroon. What good would telling you my favorite color is blue be? no good at all. You then would receive blue presents with a card attached written in blue pen and covered in blue stickers. By this point you're wishing you said purple. I hold the same thought process with people. I a person asked me my opinion of them i would give them an honest answer. If i didn't like someone and lied and said i did, that would lead to a clingy girl i couldn't stand declaring that i'm her new BFF and we would forever be connected by our sisterly love. Sounds like torture. The truth may be hard at times but it is always the correct choice. The high road is for the brave and the truthful while the low road is for the cowardly and their so called "white lies".

"if barbie has so many friends why do you have to buy them?"

Looks are deceiving. When you see the girls with the bleach blonde hair, the DD boobs, the perfect friends, and have Ken as their extremely handsome boyfriend... take a closer look. maybe she has to spend hours burning her scalp with bleach in order to maintain her golden locks. maybe her DD boobs are fake and actually hard as rocks. maybe her perfect friends are backstabbing bitches and she has no idea. and maybe Ken is a cheating bastard that she loves too much to let go. Every person has a background story that you should try to understand before you pass judgement. It may be exactly what you though, or it may surprise you. who knows.

"I'm not going to apologize for it, cause the truth is I'd do it again."

No matter how bad people make you feel, how how much trouble something brought you... don't apologize for something you're not sorry for. hold your head up high and take pride in what you did. Something that makes you happy will always be worth the risk of people and their jealousy. At some point everything will blow over and you will be standing strong among all of their wreckage. Its better to have your own approval than the approval of others. Go to sleep at night knowing that you did whatever made you smile, and you will sleep easy. Shed a tear not for yourselves but for the people who are too busy ridiculing you to make themselves happy.

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

We have a tendency to lie to ourselves. every time we do something wrong we try and make ourselves feel better by saying its experience. Its something we can learn from, something that will light the way to a future or happiness. Face it, sometimes a mistake is a mistake. sometimes people screw up and there is no lesson to be learned. You need to take a step back, observe the shipwreck you just caused, and realize there is no bringing the titanic up from the bottom of the ocean. Sure, you can say "well, next time we wont take the life boats off the ship" or "well, next time we won't hit an ice burg" but when are you ever going to be sailing a ship through ice burg infested waters? Never. Just walk away with your head hung in shame and hope your good points have made up for the bad ones.

"Youth is a disease from which we all recover."

When you are young you are dumb. no matter how high your IQ is or, or how many hours you studies for text, youth is being ignorant. You have no idea of what the future has in store for you. You have never felt heartbreak or loss, wealth or poverty, love or hate. These things are only uncovered to you over time. You live and you learn and you become wiser. At some point we must ditch the 'i know it all' mind set and accept that we all have things to learn. You gather knowledge for the people around you and the experiences that you are thrown into.

"Music is reflection of self." - Eminem

Music is extremely personal. You may be listening to the same song as the person next to you, but the stories and lessons they find in them may be extremely different. Some people enjoy sappy love songs that talk about true love and heartbreak, while some people enjoy a fast paced rap where the majority of the words need to bleeped out on the radio... and thats okay! when it comes to music it is truly 'whatever floats your boat'. When you slip in your headphones and press play on your ipod you enter a world that is strictly your own. The music you listen to has the power to calm you, excite you, make you cry, or even lighten your spirits... even if the person next to you is complaining that their ears are bleeding.

"Time keeps moving on and on and on, soon we'll all be gone." - Blink 182

Face it. We will all die eventually, so why not make life worth dying for? You are constantly moving forward in time, and leaving all the minuets and seconds behind. You should make all those minuets and seconds add up to a greater picture. This picture will be you in old age, looking back at your life... and being happy with it. Live all your moments with that future in the back of your mind. Think "will this make me pleased with my life? or "will i be proud of myself when i'm older?". With this in mind, go forth and have fun. Make mistakes and laugh about them when you tell your friends and family. If you are enjoying your life, you will be happy in youth and old age.

"You don't bring me anything but down." - Sheryl Crow

It may take you a moment to realize, or it may take you a decade, but the moment you do nothing will ever be the same. There are some people in your life that stand for the sole purpose of infecting your happiness with negative entities. They may pretend to be god, or think what they are doing is for the best but all the while they are poison in your blood. When the time come that you realize this you must cut off all ties. You bust end the relationship cold turkey and move on with your life. Soon your head will clear and you will be able to smile without a lie behind it, or love without a guarded heart.

"Don't go changing to try to please me, you never let me down before." - Billy Joel

Society has a way of tricking people into thinking they are less than they are. Seeing magazines and movies cause you to second guess who they are and who is accepted by the people around them. In relationships, a lot of the time people run into the problem when they feel the need to change to keep a relationship alive. If you were yourself in the beginning of he relationship you should be yourself to see it end (either in a breakup or death). If your man like blondes and you have brown hair, don't jump on the idea of bleaching your hair to please him. That won't win his heart, it will win a temporary spot in bed. A man would much rather you embrace the look and personality you have, because thats who he's dating... not a mail order girlfriend.

"If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all." -Audrey Hepburn

Fairy tales aren't just for children, they're for anyone with hope. Hope that someday there will be prince charming for you, and someday you will like happily ever after. Sure, your happily ever after may be spend in the suburbs chasing after your kids, and sure your prince charming may be a glorified accountant... but who's judging? As long as your happy they might as well write a fairy tale book after you. Adults read them to children to show then to keep their chin up. None of them were a smooth road for any of the characters, but they still turned out okay in the end. Everyone knows cinderella, Ariel, Belle, Aurora, and Jasmine as beautiful, caring, strong, loving, (and a little lucky) women and thats the characteristics every little girl should grow up thinking they are.

"If I get married, I want to be very married." -Audrey Hepburn

I wish the idea of marriage had remained the same over the years. I miss the times where your grandparents got married once, and they remained together until they needed hearing aids and had to live on creamed peas. Something in that just seems so beautiful to me. When i get married, i want to be married forever. I want to spend my life with one person "until death do us part". One wedding, one dress, one groom, one set of vows for life. I hope my marriage will be beautiful, with no worries of economics, divorce, or people standing in the way. When a ring is put on my finger it will remain there forever... and to be sure of that i will find the right man. He won't be perfect, but he will be right for me. If it takes a little longer than most, oh well. It will come eventually.

"I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone." -Audrey Hepburn

being alone and being left alone are two different things. Being alone is sad. Alone is a place where your thoughts can creep around you, stealing your mind to feed to the happy people. Being left alone is happy. Its when people stop nagging, ranting, and making fun of you. Its when people finally accept that you have feeling rather than think your a piece of meat to be grilled. Being left alone is like being free. Imagine your an ant. People feel the need to squish aunt because they're little and weak. People think its funny to put a magnifying glass so they can watch it burn. The ant can't fight back, can't say anything to make you stop, and can't even run for his life. Leave it alone. You really shouldn't get so much pleasure out of its pain anyways. Leave it alone and leave it to be happy.

"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others." -Audrey Hepburn

It's true that you should be your main priority should be yourself, but the second shouldn't be your shoes or clothing or hair... it should be other people. Life is too short to live solely for yourself. The world is soooo big, and you are just one tiny spec in it. Would you like to remain a spec, or would you like to grow? in order to grow you much touch other people. Touch their hearts in a way that will make you memorable to them, and in return they will make you grow. Just simple actions such as holding a door, picking up something when it falls, or even a complement (everyone loves a good complement every now and then) can make a difference. A life lived for other people is a life well lived.