Famous
By Anika
Inspired by Noami Shihab Nye
Special is famous to you
You don’t want to let it go
But you can’t help but smile, because
you’re just another face in
the never ending crowd, oh no.
You’re special.
Love is famous to laughter
the sound of laughter comes,
you own it, the madness owns you.
But you feel the best you ever have,
free of all fears. You live just
to love.
I physically cannot get things done before time. It is legitimately impossible. Even if I do start something early and finish it before the due date, I’ll forget I have other stuff to do and revel in my ‘organization skills’. Then I suddenly realize I have like three pieces of homework and stay up several hours later than I normally would trying to finish this stuff.
so yepppppp. >.<
(I am procrastinating right now ^u^)
How do you survive procrastination?
Here are some ways that I do:
I don’t.
Until something inspiring happens.
Until it is 10:00 pm, and then I do the work.
I watch inspirational videos.
I just focus really hard.
I just pull all-nighters.
I use a timer.
I listen to concentration music.
I wanted to do this because my character in our culture picture book project was named Sage. That named seemed like a mysterious name, so I decided to write about how I would imagine a person like Sage.
Sage is needed, however invisible.
Sage is often underestimated, but is very powerful.
Sage works with Shadows, is rarely seen.
Sage hides from the human eye.
Sage disappears, and the forest does too.
Sage makes sure to keep the forest together.
Sage is herself- even when the forest is not.
This is part 2, so that’s why this starts on number 6.
6. Stare at someone the whole time that they are at the library and then ask them, “Are you Justin Bieber” or “Are you Taylor Swift?”
7. Act genuinely scared by something in your book and hide behind someone saying “Oh man, that thing is scary. HIDE ME!”
8. Go to someone and say, “You know, when I wrote that book, I did not have readers like you in mind”
9. Keep asking your neighbor if they know characters from your book.”Do u know Hermoine?” “No,” “Hmm.I don’t either”
10. Pack lots of silly stuff and bring them out one by one as people are watching.
Okay so, I wanted to quit the challenge, but then I was like, that’s so lame of me. So I decided to do all 15 blog posts I missed when thinking I was quitting. Let’s get started!
1. Sit very close to someone even if there is space somewhere else and ask them to move up.
2.Get a book and seat next to someone. Laugh obnoxiously, look at them, laugh again, look at them then laugh the last time and ask defensively,”What?”
3. If you and something else are looking at books on a shelf, start pointing at random books and say, “I have read that one and that one and that one. As a matter of fact, I have read ALL of them,” while gesturing to all of the books. Then smile at your neighbor and walk away without looking back.
4. Pretend to be learning a dance from the book. Look at it, and do a weird move, then look at again and do another weird move
5.Read over someone’s shoulder and if they turn the page, turn it back and say,”I am not done yet.”
As a kid I was pretty prone to believing people pretty much unconditionally as with most children. I just had too much trust for my own good, like, “Oh why would anyone have any reason to lie to me, the world is nothing but nice people and purity! “Of course, I’ve grown out of that mentality (unfortunately) and I am a lot more cautious. But for a while people could tell me things and I’d just believe them. I got thinking about all the ridiculous things people put in my head that I stored as a fact, and I decided to make a list of the craziest ones, and also just letting you know I was like, younger than 7 in all these stories. Don’t worry I didn’t just find out these things aren’t true a couple of months ago or anything.
Grasshoppers spit acid in your shoes.
This one probably needs explaining. I was at my house with some friends outside and we were running around in the grass without our shoes on. When we went back to put them on there was a little grasshopper sitting at the bottom of my right shoe. “Guys look, a cute little grasshopper is wearing my shoe!” And one of my friends goes, “Oh my god! Grasshoppers spit acid! Get it out!” And then we all start panicking at the fact there was a death grasshopper in my shoe. I looked up why she could have thought that and it actually is a fact that grasshoppers can spit a brown liquid to protect themselves from predators. It’s called Tobacco Juice and even though it’s slightly acidic the worst it can really do is stain your clothes. It’s pretty much harmless. But ohhhh, no, I had the image in my head of some breaking bad acid dissolving in everything it touches.
Since this post is pretty long, I’m going to write more about it on my next post. Stay tuned for it!
It’s supposed to snow! After all these months of green grass, we finally get to see bankets of white snow that we will have to clean off our really big driveways…. :/
Anyways, I’m SO excited. I bought a new sled thinking there was going to be a lot of snow this year, and finally I can actually use it. The weird things is, that also happened to my friend. 😛
Snow is like angels falling from the heavens waiting for the world to change (snow)
Icy cuffs
that held her mind
her heart
her soul
Icing Sugar, that’s how my mom used to explain snow,
“the grass is crunchy because it’s crystallized,”
Are we a cake then?
To be decorated
by stick little fingers,
like my own?
Mom said no,
but everytime it snows
I think of the world
being an understatement of realities
Best memory of snow.
I’m not going to get all technical (yes, that is how you spell it, otherwise my computer would underline it in red, that is what you guys meant, right?) with the right -phobia words. But…
Feel free to confess your phobias in the comments!
I have a fear of chihuahuas. Those little dogs are so… not for me. (I like other dogs though)
Have you ever been in a restaurant where they dim the lights and its really crowded and you can’t see anything? Or you have that moment in the car at night, driving home, when you notice how terribly dark everything is and every headlight flashing by makes you jump? I think that is probably claustrophobia. I don’t like dim lights and I don’t like the dark, but I don’t like light at night, either. I guess I like things to be “natural”.
Fear of nothingness. Does that make sense? Sometimes I get this chilling sensation that I’m nothing, that this doesn’t exist, that I’m something else huge and yet so small. I can bring that feeling on if I want to, but usually I prefer not to.
I used to hate loud noises. It’s pretty ironic because I love watch percussion concerts. I’ve mostly gotten over that, but I’m so afraid when I hear loud noises and I don’t know what they are.
I don’t really have a fear of heights, but I do hoard things a lot. I have a very difficult time throwing stuff out, so when I’m standing on a bridge or somewhere up high, I’m always afraid I’ll drop something. I’ve never lost anyone in my family (that I was close with/really knew). I don’t have a fear of my own death, but certainly of those I love. Fear of loss is probably my worst fear.
Now I sound really paranoid. Oh well.
Imagine if you can, if this world only spoke of one word
life without proper language
try to imagine thinking without language, but, of course, we’d be doing that with language itself
How would CONVERSATIONS happen?
it wouldn’t make sense at all
if there was only one word there would be little speaking at all
And TELEVISION
if there was only one word there would be very different television and shows
What would MUSIC be like?
would it get annoying, or would the singer say it different each and every time
There would be very little to READING
If there was only one word, this poem wouldn’t exist at all.
Before I begin, I’d like to say that I’ve been busy for the past few days, so I’m posting days 10, 11, and 12 today. So, day 10 is going to be a paragraph about balance.
Everything is always balanced with its opposite, although it doesn’t always seem this way. Good is balanced with bad; if everything’s been going well, expect some storms ahead. But if things have been going wrong left and right, don’t be discouraged- the light will show itself soon. Dark is balanced with Light, they might be equal, or Light might be more for some time, and then Dark invades, or vice versa. Balance is vital, and it’s always here; at least, it always has been here. Balance could be removed, but if things keep working the way they are, that won’t happen. Nothing stays the same forever, so no change is permanent. As of now, balance is forever.
Look out for the next two days, they’ll be posted today!