You must die to every earthly hope, to every merely human confidence.  You must die to your selfishness, and to the world, because it is only through your selfishness that the world has power over you.  Kierkegaard

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.

- Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Things that make me cry right now:

1. the way the people in my family treat me.
2. not having enough time
3. being sick
4. bills to pay
5. my friends abandoing me cuz we arent in the same season in life..

thats enough for today.

but mark bought me beautiful pink roses

Light at the end of the tunnel, the higher education tunnel:

I only have 2 years left! Then I will graduate with my degree in Marketing! Super! I am so excited! I might really not be in college until I die or Jesus comes back!

Oh happy day!

I want to dance! :)

~V

Develop interest in life as you see it;

in people,

things,

literature,

music -

the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people.

Forget yourself.

-V

Middle of the night and it's getting so hard to breathe.
You can't sleep, can't think, can't hardly dream.
Do you fear what the world wants you to be?

Open your eyes and just see what the world is,
Open your mind and you're free.

There's more in this world than we see,
Just leave these illusions behind and run with me.
If all of the things that you thought you would be,
Pass you by.
We'll find what we need in our lives.
We'll find what we need in our lives.

I spent a lifetime hoping it would come to me.
Getting lost in the lies I believed.
We're covered by a mask that we think is our sin,
But we never realized that the truth is within.

Open your eyes and just see what the world is,
Open your mind and you're free.

There's more in this world than we see,
Just leave these illusions behind and run with me.