jonas brothers

just for the record, i am in no way, shape, or form a jonas brothers fan. i have better things to do with my life than listen to sugarcoated boy bands who are younger than i am. but a link to jonassecrets.tumblr.com popped up on another one that i follow and i took a look. i don't know what to think...personally, girls like these make me rather embarrassed to be female- especially the older girls who you think would know better. but at the same time, i remember being in middle school when everyone had celebrity crushes, and i figure, well, these girls will grow up and learn eventually. i just really hope they do.

return of the king

i just finished watching the return of the king for what seems like the millionth time, and i have to say it just gets better and better. there's something about courage-in-the-face-of-insurmountable-odds (how cliche) that makes me want to be a better person. and the accompanying motivational speeches make me cry. come to think of it, this entire movie makes me cry (but definitely in a good way).

part of it is caused by sam. character-wise, he is my absolute favorite person. he's not at all one-dimensional, he isn't just there for amusement (see gimli the Comic Relief Dwarf), and overall he restores my faith in humanity. yes, i rely on non-humans to make me feel better about people consisting of epic and fail. this may or may not be very sad.

some of it is eowyn and her badassery. i love this girl. and at the risk of sounding completely inane, i will tell you that if she actually existed i would have the most ridiculous girly-crush on her. but she doesn't, so * sigh * i can't.

and the rest of it is, well, i have no idea really. i'm just a crier. or something.

might be because i'm a huge dork for LoTR. i've read it thirty-odd times (over a four-year period before high school); own the trilogy, the hobbit, & the silmarillion and have read them all numerous times; and used to be able to quote entire paragraphs. yeah. or maybe i'm just a dork.

but either way, tolkien was a genius.

wondrousness

the world is such a deliciously wonderful place sometimes and yet its wondrousness has been so overwhelmingly surprising lately. and i wonder why, because i know it is a lovely place to be and i know lovely things happen with frequency and yet it feels so undeniably odd, like a dress that you slip into that you didn't think would suit you but still manages to make you look sleek and elegant without losing your comfort

i have discovered that i know some of the most delightful people the universe possesses and i miss them ever so much but at the same time they are just so wonderful that i cannot help being consoled by their sheer existence and it somehow lessens my separation anxiety

and dearest readers i have no idea where i am going with this, but the world is lovely i promise you and has such wonders for you if you only believe that it does

greet each day with a smile and it will smile back =)

day brighteners

i am going to make an attempt to be a tiny bit more rational from here on in. as part of a christmas present, i was given a book of 365 day brighteners. now as i'm sure you all know by now, i do so love to share anything that provokes thought, and hopefully these quotes (and my ever-so-disorganized thoughts on such) will become a regular feature here!

ear crack

some songs are like crack. specifically

lollipop- mika

i wanna have your babies- natasha bedingfield

wordplay- jason mraz

when i grow up- pussycat dolls

schadenfreude- from avenue q

they make me dance around instead of doing whatever i'm supposed to be doing :). it is wonderful.

music is so much better than actual drugs.

dressing well

“dress shabbily and they remember the dress, dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”
- coco chanel

all the more reason to look good everywhere you go.

proud to say i've only ever left the house in pyjamas a few times in my life: high school spirit week always involved dress-down day, and i've taken a calculus AP and a physics final in pjs just for luck.

looking good can do wonders for you. please do it.

forget regret

EDIT: click the photo to see all three frames, i'm not sure why you can't see all of them here.

i am not liking the angst of the guy in the last frame. he looks like he regrets his 2008.

in life there is no need for regret that is more than transitory. yes, you can feel stupid and embarassed about having done something, but in the long run everything that happens makes you more who you are. you learn from your mistakes, and you don't do it again. or at least you think before doing it a second time.

and whatever happens that is out of your control, well, you couldn't have done anything about it anyway. don't live your life wondering 'what if i had done this?' or 'what if this hadn't happened?' because even though you may not like what you did or what happened to you, something came out of it that changed you for the better and made you who you are now.

living your life under the shadow of regrets is no way to live at all. it makes you miss the good stuff.