"Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second- rate version of somebody else."

One day you learn that the world isn't about you (well some do) and when you figure it out you realize a few things; that everyone has the ability to be cruel by nature,and that everyone will always be better than you at something even when you are convinced you are the best (so quit comparing yourself to them.) People do not want to believe that evil and good can coexist in the same heart but the truth is, is that it does. Without bad, we could not know goodness and without goodness of some in our lives we begin to hate the world. I never want to hate the world. I want to believe in people. I want the strength to except that some people are bad and that there is nothing you can do to change that. But, you CAN change what it is that you do. If people were more concerned with their own character we would never have time to point the finger and blame everyone else for our bad behavior. I guess what I am tryin to say is be who you are and say what you feel even if it means you'll be persecuted for it. What you feel in your heart is right chances are is and who am I to tell you what to believe or how to think? If you live your life with the understanding of who you are and a goal of becoming the best of what that is.....there is no way you can fail.


"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

Count your blessings

I don't care for petty and hateful people. Theres just no room in my life for those kind of people anymore.

I honestly feel brand new...

like a weight has been lifted and I find myself wondering how it was that I was ever down to begin with.

People will always try to steal your happiness...

They will lie and manipulate and maneuver until they have succeeded in stealing the very thing that makes you alive...

That holds you up.
That makes you strong.


This is because they need something that you have...

On the contrary there are those few and precious gems that are genuinely concerned with your well being.

If you find those people... NEVER lose them. To lose those people would be throwing a needle back into the haystack of fake individuals with hidden agendas.


Count your blessings and care for them.
It's what keeps you whole.

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."
-Mother Teresa

♥

He is the hope of a child
wrapped in the body of a man.
He is one hundred years of wisdom
over an eighteen year span.
He is the pleasure of my past
and the excitement of my future.
He is a dream without slumber.
He is a heart-mending suture.
He is a constellation,
painted across the blackest night sky.
He is a song without words.
He is a natural high.
He is enlightenment--extreme awareness
He is selfless temperance.
He is humility and fairness.
He is the very deepest oceans
and tallest of trees.
He is the shore upon the sand.
He is a summer breeze.
He is an epic love story
masked behind tragedies of war.
He is pure.
He is love.
He is everything and more.

Music is the universal key

It is undeniable that music is the universal key to what brings us all together.

Without it, I know that I would be lost.

There is something incredible about listening to a song, and having it take you to a place in time.
Where you have never felt more sad,
more happy,
more alive.

Confucious once said that “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without”

It is the tie that binds.

nothing breaks my heart more than wasted talent

Graffiti artist Banksy said;

"Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave the house before you find something worth staying in for. "

I have met people from all walks of life, some with potential, and some without. There is nothing that breaks my heart more, than to see someone with so much inside of them let it slip away. I will be the first to admit, that some dreams seem unattainable. However I will also say that if you have a gift please for the love of everything good in this world, USE IT. Take a picture, write a story, paint, draw, play music.

CREATE SOMETHING.

Anything...

It will only do good things for you.
Don't use where you come from as a cop-out.
Live your dream, and forget about what you've been told.

Find your voice, and use it.

When Billie Holiday was asked where she got her sound, she replied with "I've always wanted to sing the way an instrument plays music."

Lady Holiday had it right when she described voice as an instrument, it is one we all have.
If you want to be heard, use your instrument.

Find your voice, and use it.




"smoke filled room"

Lady sings the blues
as he takes off his shoes.
As he takes of her dress
she's got nothing to lose.

Lady sings her song
he's not singing along.
But he makes her feel good
What on earth could go wrong?

Lady hums her tune
by the light of the moon.
he's taken her soul
and left the saloon.

Lady is alone
in a room of her own.
Lighting her last cigarette
and chilled to the bone.

There is a fondness in the way it snows.

Oscar Wilde wrote;

“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.”

There is a fondness in the way it snows. The way each flake is it's own prototype, yet when pressed together it is all the same. One white blanket coating whatever is in its path.

Much like people

A crowd is not noticed for each individual person, but as a collective whole of nothing but blurred faces.