No matter what I do, I always forget to forget you.

You haven’t been on msn in a while.
I got used to you always being online.
Are you okay?
I need to know.
Even if it’s too hard to still have you in my life, I still need to make sure things are okay.
I hope you’ve found happiness.
I hope you’re safe.
I hope you’ve found love.
Last time I talked to you, you seemed to really have it together.
I hope the things you told me were true.
I miss you.
“I need to know that you are alive and well somewhere in this world, even if it’s not by my side.”

religion is an option, not an obligation.

If you don’t believe something is right, simply don’t do it.
I don’t know who told you that you had the right to decide how other people should live their lives.
Since when did what someone else chooses to do with their lives affect in any way how you live yours?
The thing I’ve always hated about organized religion is that some people think that because they have a certain belief, they have the right to dictate how others choose to live their lives.
If someone is a strong believer in god and Christianity, but happens to be gay, who’s to say that that person is going to hell?
Really?
Because they would rather be with a man then a woman, they are no longer worthy as a human being?
I am a strong believer in equal rights for everyone.
No one has the right to tell someone they can’t, or that they aren’t good enough.
Not me, not you, not your mother or father, not your priest, not your friends, not your teacher, not the prime minister, not the queen, not even your god.
Nobody.
If you’ve made the decision to follow a certain faith, go right ahead. I have nothing against you. If you don’t believe in something, that if completely and totally up to you. It’s when you start to tell other people what is right and wrong. That is when I have a problem with it.
Just because that is right for you doesn’t mean it’s right for everyone.

what lies behind us and what lies in front of us are tiny things compared to what lies within us.

For a couple of years now, I’ve had a plan for how I want the rest of my life to go.
I wanted to finish high school and go straight to university. I wanted to get my degree in education, and then after university, I wanted to start a career right away.
Recently things have started to change.
I still want to be a teacher, but I don’t have the intense desire to grow up anymore.
I definitely don’t want to spend any more time in high school then I need to, but I don’t feel like I have to start my future right away.
I’d definitely like to take a year off.
I’m going to live with Robin and Ryan.
I don’t want to, or hope to.
I am going to.
It doesn’t matter if people don’t think we can’t do it, or if you think we won’t have enough money.
We don’t need a beautiful apartment, with lots of space.
I’ll share a room. I’ll even sleep on the couch. I don’t care.
I definitely want to live downtown.
Downtown is where I’m happiest. It’s where I belong.
After that, I’ll start university.
It doesn’t all have to happen right away.
I don’t want to miss this.
I don’t want to wake up one day with kids and responsibilities and wonder where the time went.
I want to travel. When I say travel I don’t mean going to the fanciest restaurants and going to all the landmarks. I want to experience the culture. I want to understand how all the people of the world live their lives.
As much as I am excited to have a family, and a job, and a house, I want to take full advantage of my youth. I’ll never be any younger than I am at this moment.

happiness is a choice you make.

a list of things that i love.
family
friends
sunshine
pizza
going for walks
summer
naps
memories
pictures
when winter turns into spring
baggy sweaters
music
saturday
baths
fredericton
flowers
downtown
writing
when winter turns into spring
tanning
smoothies
the beatles
traveling
barbecues
kind strangers
canoeing
surprises
st. andrews
sleepovers
pizza
long socks
laughing
swimming
sleepovers
trampolines
the market
the lake
watching movies
board games
sleep
blogging
facebook creeping
getting organized
relaxing
love.