Sooo...I don't really have a lot to say since my mind is kind of all over the place right now...What I'm gonna do is just ramble and share some things I've learned about life and from life...also some tidbits about being alive...IF that's ok with y'all. ;) I feel like I owe y'all SOMETHING since it's been like...two months since my last blog post...(oops!)
FIRST TOPIC! Little known fact about me (unless you've asked me what my plans are for my life post-high school...) I am a part time maid. Since I work with a team of lovely ladies, I am surrounded by people, 9-5, two days a week, who are so different from me and my family. I get a pretty good look at different personalities and character types, etc.
BY THE WAY! I am a HUGE personality/character analysis geek, y'all. Tell me your Myers-Briggs test result and I've just gotten the best gift EVER! (Aside from iTunes gift cards. XD
During my hours working, I also see many different lives and lifestyles. Some of the girls I work with in the maid business (Maid in Carolina, if y'all are wondering) are in college; many are married with kids. One girl is newly-ish married; some are empty-nesters. (I am currently the youngest in the group.) It is beautiful how different we all are. From stature to race to...
The beauty of our job (one of the many beauties) is the fact that while we are cleaning, it's almost always just us in the building/place/structure/thingy. So we can talk/yell over the vacuum, joke about who was the last one to "steal the smelly stuff" (aka incense-oil-stuff for the Rainbow vacuum), crack jokes on each other just because. It's like The Sisterhood of the Maid Brigade XD
I pride myself in being able to read people, their emotions, their personality, their...person...easily (#sixthsense), and I *really* do think that everyone gets along...at least fairly well.
#ramblingmuch (sorry!)
I LOVE diversity. If you know me even a little bit, you've probably already figured this out. (At least a little bit...if you think about it hard enough.) I like new, different, interesting things. Anything. Food, people, places, music, art, movies, books, clothing styles, COLOURS!
I CANNOT convey strongly enough the important of colour (and VIBRANT colours at that) in the everyday lives of people. I went through a period of....a couple weeks when I tried to ONLY wear black and white. I wanted to be as Candor as I could possibly make myself be. (Yes...a faction shout out to all my Divergent fans ^.^ Btw, I took the test and got Erudite, Dauntless and Candor...*whispers* What'd you get????) ANYWAYS! only black and white. I found out that my...person, my inner being, cannot handle not being exposed to many different colours and patterns and styles and...when it was just black and white, I was...totally and completely not myself. My entire family is like that. Even the family I've adopted to be my family who really are just SUPER close friends that I love to pieces.
OH! I also like noticing the little things that make life worth living. Like the exact DAY when the leaves in my neighbourhood start changing. Or that cute little curl of hair on that baby's head that just WON'T stay down and is ABSOLUTELY adorable! Or that subtle hint of crisp in the air at the beginning of fall. Or that subtle taste of cloves...and...nutmeg in an apple spice cupcake. Or the laughter of 7 siblings in the background of one of Tris and Four's victories. The cloaking silence that heals and repairs broken hearts, feels, minds, etc. The perfect song at the perfect moment, be it a happy moment or otherwise. I think you get the picture. There are certain things, they happen everyday if you keep your eyes open to see them, that awaken even the most dormant of sensory nerves. The deepest parts of us are called awake by the smallest pieces of life. THOSE beautiful gems are my MOST favourite part of being alive sometimes. (Fall and winter are also WAY UP HIGH on that list.)
SO! List of life lessons learned late last lunes (aka Monday, in Spanish.)
- Look for those beautiful gems of life. (aka God's love letters.)
- Life is more than what we feel. So often, we get wrapped up in how we feel about a certain situation, how a circumstance will affect...wait for iiiiiiiiiit...*me*. We can't see what's going on in Life's back stage wings. God is doing something amazing with our lives and we just have to trust Him and wait on His timing to bring us through it. (ooohh...I smell a new post topic!) We can't spend all of our time sitting in the wallows of our feelings that will, ultimately, keep us from moving forward into a bright and beautiful future.
- British people (English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh people) are pretty darn smart. Like, there are things that they do that are BRILLIANT!!!! Like football (soccer), since it is played WITH ONE'S FEET! is called...wait for it....FOOTball while Americans sit around and eat chitterlings. (*gag*)
[I'm sorry, but y'all Americans are CRAZY sometimes!....Most of the time actually.] - It's fun throwing around the fact that I'm not completely American. ;)
- British spellings of things is QUITE fun. (Also speaking is an English accent!)
- Friends are...no...GOOD friends...hmm...GOD SENT FRIENDS are...well...God sent. They're blessed stabilisers (<-- UK spelling! ^.^) and balances when life gets crazy. I am SOOO thankful to my sister (aka best friends that are actually closer than friends.) Shout out to Alana and Laina and Ocean and Emily and...Noelani...and Maddie...ALL OF Y'ALL from the last Thursday night small group (y'all know who you are!) I THANK GOD FOR Y'ALL AND I PRAY FOR YOU GUYS ALL THE TIME! Like literally, 63% of my day is spend thinking about/praying for y'all...
- Family is forever. I know I will get a PLETHORA of different opinions and emotional reactions to those three words, but it's true. Whether they're forever a pain or forever a blessing and are your bestest group of best friends, They. Are. Forever. I have been feeling an urgency lately to...amend...bridges that have been too easily left to disrepair with my siblings and just my family in general. Am I perfect? HA! Hardly! BUT I am making (or trying to remember to make) a conscious effort to be good to them. To RACOL often. To love unconditionally. It's hard, but it's worth it.
- God's diversity is to be observed, respected, loved, and....umm....I hate having words in my mind/heart and not knowing how to convey them! #INFJprobs!...umm...internalized....but with feelings...Like...when you love something so much you just want to hold it and protect it and make sure nothing bad happens to it....THAT is what we need to do with God's diversity called The Human Race. I know that we (speaking of humanity and human creatures) are not, AT ALL, close to even SLIGHTLY perfect...(*shutters* a HEAVY topic for another post) BUT we each see the world in a different way. We each have God's ruach (Origin: Hebrew. Meaning: breath, spirit) in our bodies. THAT above all else (EVEN where they came from, their family history, education, etc.) is to be cherished. God forgive us for making common that which is SO beautifully complex and amazing: life and humanity.
- Deep, DEEP, DDDDDEEEPPPP thinking happens LLLAAATTEEE at night. I become a philosopher when I'm dead tired. (In case you haven't noticed.)
#deepthinkinggeek
I am headed to bed now, all you lovely people. (Hopefully I'll find a good picture for this post...)
OOOHHH!!! I GOT INSTAGRAM! @jazz.dancer ^.^ Follow me please :) I'm still being random and I'm trying to break away so that I can go to bed XD C'est la vie. (Origin: French. Meaning: Such is life.)
Please feel absolutely free to comment and tell me to "please stop being so random!" It's OK, y'all! Randomness is healthy! I saw a psychology post on Pinterest about how weirdness and those who are comfortable being weird are really good at relieving themselves of stress. (Which is...actually pretty true.) EMBRACE THE WEIRDNESS, PEOPLE! ^.^
Ok....for reals now...I'm headed to bed. G'nite peoples! <3
P.S. Looks like I really *did* have a lot to say...^.^
P.S. Looks like I really *did* have a lot to say...^.^
Ciao!
