This is definitely one of my pet hates, people copying other people's ideas and style for their own. You were born to be a unique person of your own!
(Don't worry, this post will be brief)
Growing up you meet a lot of people in your life. You make a strong group of friends and sooner or later you're all wearing the same sort of thing and are interested in the same sorts of things. Of course, that's completely normal. You're friends with someone because of your similar interests! No, what's gets to me is when people change who they are and the way they act in order to be friends with someone. As I already said, you were born to be your own person, so that's why it annoys me when someone becomes the double of someone else.
I think that if you begin to act like you're someone else it becomes just that, an act. For me, I would find it tiring to have to act like I was someone else the whole time rather than just be me. I wish people weren't so scared to be themselves. Of course, it could be because they aren't that confident and are able to hide their true self by being someone else. But it's sad because it means that if you can't be yourself now, when will you ever have the courage to be yourself!? This post has been random I know, but it's just something that's always annoyed me.
Surely you're too busy being yourself to try and act like someone you're not...
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Growing Pains: School
I remember my first day at Coleraine High School like it was yesterday. The school seemed so big and everyone else so tall. I was about to begin an exciting chapter of life, high school!
I remember us all getting a chair and sitting in a circle in our form room, learning about where one another had come from. Back then it seemed like the next 7 years were going to be long and stretch out. And yet, here I am halfway through Lower Sixth, going through AS Level stresses and talking about University courses!
I have to admit though, talking about University excites me greatly. I have cousins and a sister at Uni and they always seem to be having such a great time that I can't wait to have my own experience! However, it also worries me! I'll have to pick a course and hope for the life of me that it was the right choice. What if I can't do the work? What if I can't cope? Listening to friends, I see that i'm not the only one worrying about these sorts of things. I have one friend who is looking at courses in America! I think that's an incredibly brave thing to even think about doing. I'm all for going away and starting fresh somewhere, but I secretly like the comfort of knowing I'll only ever be at least a two hour flight away from home and everything I know and am comfortable with.
Growing up is scary. But if it's one thing i've learnt this (school) year, it's that nothing stays the same forever and eventually you realise that you just have to hold on to the safety rail and ride the bumpy rollercoaster that is life.
^----- (yay for cheesy ending)
I remember us all getting a chair and sitting in a circle in our form room, learning about where one another had come from. Back then it seemed like the next 7 years were going to be long and stretch out. And yet, here I am halfway through Lower Sixth, going through AS Level stresses and talking about University courses!
I have to admit though, talking about University excites me greatly. I have cousins and a sister at Uni and they always seem to be having such a great time that I can't wait to have my own experience! However, it also worries me! I'll have to pick a course and hope for the life of me that it was the right choice. What if I can't do the work? What if I can't cope? Listening to friends, I see that i'm not the only one worrying about these sorts of things. I have one friend who is looking at courses in America! I think that's an incredibly brave thing to even think about doing. I'm all for going away and starting fresh somewhere, but I secretly like the comfort of knowing I'll only ever be at least a two hour flight away from home and everything I know and am comfortable with.
Growing up is scary. But if it's one thing i've learnt this (school) year, it's that nothing stays the same forever and eventually you realise that you just have to hold on to the safety rail and ride the bumpy rollercoaster that is life.
^----- (yay for cheesy ending)
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Music & Lyrics (A Follow Up To My Previous Post)
Music. It's part of anyone's day. Whether it be in an advert, playing as background music in a shop or on an iPod or phone. For me, I couldn't live without music. This sounds very dramatic but I don't go a day without listening to some form of music. Getting ready in the morning; in my free periods; walking home from school; getting changed out my uniform and on in the background when i'm just, you know, chillin'.
As a kind of follow up to my last post about films and how they can sometimes give false impressions, I wanted to quickly write my thoughts on music. I think it's a lot more powerful than some people realise. There is quite literally a song to go with any kind of mood you're in or for any situation you are in. If anyone followed me on Twitter they'd soon find out that I LOVE tweeting lyrics from songs. It can get annoying for people to have to read and it can lose me followers but sometimes the only way you can express yourself is through words that other people have written.
Over the past few months i've been listening to music a lot more. It's reassuring to find that other people know exactly what sort of things you're going through and you can connect through their songs. For example, I was maybe a litte obsessed with Katy Perry's song 'The One That Got Away' for ages..
"In another life, I would be your girl,
We'd keep all our promises, be us against the world.
In another life, I would make you stay,
So I don't have to say you were the only who got away"
"..Never planned that one day I'd be losing you"
Pretty obvious what the song is about, but such simple lyrics that many people can relate to now in life. Having regrets where you wished you'd just said what you were feeling not taken things for granted.
On the flip side of that, I love Andy Grammer's song, 'Keep Your Head Up'
"But you gotta keep your head up, so you can let your hair down
I know it's hard, know it's hard to remember sometimes,
But you gotta keep your head up, so you can let your hair down"
I love that song too. It's all about acknowledging that you have troubles in your life but by keeping your head up and battering on through, things will be alright. Such a positive song when you're down or finding things are against you.
I could write and write and write about a million songs that I constantly listen to and whose lyrics people can relate to. It's the best feeling when you feel like no one understands you and a song comes on that explains exactly how you're feeling and you know you're not the only one to go through it!
"This too, shall pass" - English Proverb
Rock on.
As a kind of follow up to my last post about films and how they can sometimes give false impressions, I wanted to quickly write my thoughts on music. I think it's a lot more powerful than some people realise. There is quite literally a song to go with any kind of mood you're in or for any situation you are in. If anyone followed me on Twitter they'd soon find out that I LOVE tweeting lyrics from songs. It can get annoying for people to have to read and it can lose me followers but sometimes the only way you can express yourself is through words that other people have written.
Over the past few months i've been listening to music a lot more. It's reassuring to find that other people know exactly what sort of things you're going through and you can connect through their songs. For example, I was maybe a litte obsessed with Katy Perry's song 'The One That Got Away' for ages..
"In another life, I would be your girl,
We'd keep all our promises, be us against the world.
In another life, I would make you stay,
So I don't have to say you were the only who got away"
"..Never planned that one day I'd be losing you"
Pretty obvious what the song is about, but such simple lyrics that many people can relate to now in life. Having regrets where you wished you'd just said what you were feeling not taken things for granted.
On the flip side of that, I love Andy Grammer's song, 'Keep Your Head Up'
"But you gotta keep your head up, so you can let your hair down
I know it's hard, know it's hard to remember sometimes,
But you gotta keep your head up, so you can let your hair down"
I love that song too. It's all about acknowledging that you have troubles in your life but by keeping your head up and battering on through, things will be alright. Such a positive song when you're down or finding things are against you.
I could write and write and write about a million songs that I constantly listen to and whose lyrics people can relate to. It's the best feeling when you feel like no one understands you and a song comes on that explains exactly how you're feeling and you know you're not the only one to go through it!
"This too, shall pass" - English Proverb
Rock on.
(1) Blog About Films
She liked him and he liked her.
They went out.
They broke up.
Realised they couldn't live without one another.
*Cue a music montage*
Get back together...THE END.
Sound familiar? This is more or less the usual story to most films nowadays, well the RomComs anyway. And don't get me wrong, I adore them and love a good ending as much as the next person. However I also think that films can sometimes glaze over the truth. They can portray life as one big movie in itself in which we live with this idea that we want to find the perfect person based on someone in film. Or if someone in a film goes through what we go through and they get back together or it all works out okay then why shouldn't that happen to us? I'm well aware this all sounds like i'm picking on films, but i'm not! Anyone that knows me will know that I love nothing more than to settle down and watch an attractive male find a pretty girl and everything to work out just swell in the end.
However, just the other day I watched a film i'd never seen before. It was called (500) Days of Summer.
It was basically your standard romantic comedy type film. Only it didn't have its usual ending. (If you haven't seen it and want to watch it skip this part..i'll put it in blue!)
It basically is about a guy who meets a girl. She's never been that much into relationships because she thinks that when you're young you should have fun and leave all the serious stuff until you're older. He's really into her though and eventually they start dating each other. The whole film flicks back and forth through 500 days of their time together and apart. It shows how she starts to act strange and doesn't want to hang out as much and eventually they break up. He (Tom) is gutted because he still loves her (Summer) and vows to get her back. At the end though she ends up with someone else and they are friends. It shows how he is forced to move on because she gets married to someone else. There is a really nice final scene between the two where she talks about what happened.
I was watching it and I thought, that's brilliant! A film about what everyone will probably go through in their life! Sometimes it just doesn't work out and you are forced to move on from someone even if you don't want to. I've been recommending this film to anyone that hasn't seen it. I think it's a really good idea. I'm sure there are other films with the same thing but this is the only modern one I have seen.
There's a part in the film where he is asking her about all her old boyfriends and then says, "What happened to them all?"
And she says, "What always happens, life."
This is so true. Life doesn't always give you what you want and sometimes things just don't work out between two people even if one person thinks it could.
Something I think everyone can relate to...
They went out.
They broke up.
Realised they couldn't live without one another.
*Cue a music montage*
Get back together...THE END.
Sound familiar? This is more or less the usual story to most films nowadays, well the RomComs anyway. And don't get me wrong, I adore them and love a good ending as much as the next person. However I also think that films can sometimes glaze over the truth. They can portray life as one big movie in itself in which we live with this idea that we want to find the perfect person based on someone in film. Or if someone in a film goes through what we go through and they get back together or it all works out okay then why shouldn't that happen to us? I'm well aware this all sounds like i'm picking on films, but i'm not! Anyone that knows me will know that I love nothing more than to settle down and watch an attractive male find a pretty girl and everything to work out just swell in the end.
However, just the other day I watched a film i'd never seen before. It was called (500) Days of Summer.
^^UK promo poster^^
It was basically your standard romantic comedy type film. Only it didn't have its usual ending. (If you haven't seen it and want to watch it skip this part..i'll put it in blue!)
It basically is about a guy who meets a girl. She's never been that much into relationships because she thinks that when you're young you should have fun and leave all the serious stuff until you're older. He's really into her though and eventually they start dating each other. The whole film flicks back and forth through 500 days of their time together and apart. It shows how she starts to act strange and doesn't want to hang out as much and eventually they break up. He (Tom) is gutted because he still loves her (Summer) and vows to get her back. At the end though she ends up with someone else and they are friends. It shows how he is forced to move on because she gets married to someone else. There is a really nice final scene between the two where she talks about what happened.
I was watching it and I thought, that's brilliant! A film about what everyone will probably go through in their life! Sometimes it just doesn't work out and you are forced to move on from someone even if you don't want to. I've been recommending this film to anyone that hasn't seen it. I think it's a really good idea. I'm sure there are other films with the same thing but this is the only modern one I have seen.
There's a part in the film where he is asking her about all her old boyfriends and then says, "What happened to them all?"
And she says, "What always happens, life."
This is so true. Life doesn't always give you what you want and sometimes things just don't work out between two people even if one person thinks it could.
Something I think everyone can relate to...
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