I do like to read, yes I do

If you're interested in reading, which I hope beyond most other hopes you are, please check out this new Blog I've stumbled upon. There are these two ladies, with pretty much opposing tasted who read and rate books. Please check it out. For your own good.

Edifying and Edgy

Loving Your Body

I know that around the start of a new year a lot of people have the "resolution" to lose weight, myself included.

But is that really something I decided to do to get healthier, or to be more
Physically appealing? For myself, or for others?

Some part of me wants to be healthier; and to be honest I feel better, I'm sleeping more soundly, I wake up rested, I even crave healthier foods because I know how I feel if I eat something less healthy. But I didn't start exercising because I wanted to be healthier, I wanted to be sexier. To feel prettier when I looked in the mirror. To be able to wear more of the clothes I own, because I have gained too much weight since high school to fit into what I wore only 2 years ago.

Why is it that I, this confident independent girl, is so concerned about how she looks? Why do I care so much what my size says about my character? I want to say it's because I can't help it. That because I am constantly bombarded with images of woman who represent beauty that are the size of a toothpick, but I don't think it is. I think I pretend to think those women are beautiful, but In reality I see beauty in the eyes, in the face, in the love that flows from someone. That is where I find beauty. And I know in that way I am beautiful. I am worth taking a second look at. My beauty comes from inside me, so I'm happy. I just need to remember that sometimes when I look in the mirror and compare myself to an unrealistic body image.

About Regret

When you look at your life, what you are and what you aren’t; it’s more likely than not that you’ll regret something you didn’t do than some mistake you made. You’ll learn from a mistake, you’ll grow from it, and hopefully next time you won’t make the exact same one.
But what about the little life lessons we let slip by? What about all the times we “played it safe” and didn’t come out smarter or better for doing something different?

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you
didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from
the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Discover.
by Mark Twain

And if we look back, we may regret a silly mistake, but at least we made the decision to do something out of our comfort zone, out of the norm, out of whatever our mothers told us was acceptable behavior. We learned, we grew, and we became the people we are meant to be because of those split second decisions to defy our own “good” judgement.

I for one have missed out on things I know I’ll never again have the chance to do because I didn’t think it wise. And now, after looking at where I am and where I’ve been, I see that although it was best for me to have said no sometimes, I may have benefited more if I had just said yes. Even if only once in a while.

Curious as a cat

4) Show and Tell. What comes to mind first when you see this picture? Or, tell a story if it reminds you of one.

I have to do this backwards because the formatting keeps messing up.

This reminds me of the dungeons in a video game I play. They care connected by these old looking rope an dplank bridges. It's a very fun game. It's called Torchlight. My boyfriend bought it for me on thanksgiving. This also reminds me of a roller coster. I can't tell ecactly what it is, but it deffinatly does not look sturdy enough to hold a train full of people. Maybe it's a school project of sorts...


1.) Do you have a short fuse?
No, but once it's lit, gosh is it hard to extinguish.



2) Where is the most beautiful spot on earth that you've ever seen?
I went to the gulf of mexico once. It was amazing. We saw manatees and dolphins right up close. At night the sunset was the most beautiful thing. The water and the heat and the amazing atmosphere just added to the great beauty that is an oceans edge. I want to go back sometime. Just to be able to be around the people who live in that beauty all the time is something special. I'm a firm believer that is why the people drive slower in the south. They are comstantly surrounded by beauty, so they are less tightly wound.



3) How old do you want to live to be?
Old enough to never stop learning. Once I'm done learning and growing, once I have no more desire to better myself, that shall be the day I go.

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