Strong.

So being as it is a new year, I'm going to try and start blogging again. Everyone has resolutions that  fail, but this isnt really a resolution, it's just me trying to blog a little more thoughts here and there for the new year.
The title of this post is strong because my aunt annette, who has become quite a crafty person and photographer over the years, has a new thing where for the 2013 year, you make acronym of a word you want to use for the new year, and mine was Strong, because every person has a chance to become stronger, to find what makes them strong, and overcome challenges. The fact of becoming strong or being strong is also a positive aspect, just a progression of moving forward pretty much. I want to be stronger in every aspect of my life. Spiritually, physically, and mentally.
With my new word I also found a song that I really really like the lyrics to, and I've decided it's going to be one of the songs for the new year.

Threre's a fight to be won, for the love you find at home
There is work to be done, before you rest your weary bones
Finding peace dont come to everyone I know
So I will love in this life til I finally have to go
Said, I will love in this life til I finally have to go

Well I know I have lived just a wrinkle of my life
And I hear so many times, itll be over if I blink twice
Please forgive if i dont walk off that plank stuck in your eye
Ive got my life to love and Im here to take what's mine
Ive got my life to love and I'm here to take what's mine

Growing up child is just a matter of time
You're giving all you got so wont you dance under the sun
Growing old feels like you're giving up your soul
I'd rather give it freely to the ones that I call home

I aint scared but not afraid of the world in front of me
I found my way without your help with a broken family
Take my breaks with my sins I'll do as I do please
With my friends til the end my lie is their loyalty
With my friends til the end my lie is their loyalty

I used to close my eyes to what stirred under my bed
Now their open wide to the monsters in my head
Instead of claws they whisper lies seeking fear and quiet steps
So I will fight in the light til I give my final breath
So I will fight in the light til I give my final breath

Growing up child is just a matter of time
You're giving all you got so wont you dance under the sun
Growing old feels like you're giving up your soul
I'd rather give it freely to the ones that I call home

Growing up child is just a matter of time
You're giving all you got so wont you dance under the sun
Growing old feels like you're giving up your soul
I'd rather give it freely to the ones that I call home

I love this song because it just has hidden messages and pretty much talks about loving your life, fighting for what you love and even a little bit of carpe diem. Working and living out your full potential. As well as overcoming the monsters that are will be in you life, and just to "fight in the light until you give your final breath"
There's always a bandwagon in January to start over and start over on goals and other things but if you really think about it, you can do that every day.
Just simply waking up in the morning, God blesses you with a new day, ability to breathe, good health, just to be alive, find new oppurtunities, and to learn new things. There are Soo many people in this world with unfortunate and horrible circumstances in their lives, kids with cancer, multiple diseases, world hunger, homeless people, and the list goes on and on and on.
Looking at my life and how very very fortunate I am is something try to remember all the time, and I know that there are benefits for myself in the long run, but even better is just simply the fact that my strength can be used to do good for other people in the future, and even now, I'm striving to make 2013 a strong year.

Waiting on the world to change

 I've found that its really pretty difficult to blog on a weekly basis, but Im figuring things out here in college, so I'm hoping to get into a pattern pretty soon. Which by the way I LOVE college! Just everything about it! I think it has its own kind of awesomenes that's pretty hard to put into words. :) But This is something I jotted down when flying to ATL this summer, while listening to my ipod. A little inspiration from my man, John.

 

"When you trust your television, what you get is what you got,

cuz when they own the information, they can bend it all they want" - John Mayer

 

Finding your own opinion, I believe, helps a person find their own identities. Sure, that's a basic thing if you think about it but thsoe opinions make someone an identity from the person next to them. Your opinions come from your thoughts, your thoughts become words, words become action, and action becomes destiny.

 

What I've found to be important to me in my probably past 3-4 teenage years, and what is also enjoyable to me, is developing an opinion about something I feel is important. I like finding out for example, I want to learn how to geniunely cook. My uncle Eli, is a chef and he's really good at it. I decided that his gift is something that I want to become a talent of mine. Who doesnt want to know how to make a killer taco pizza or an amazing foreign cuisine?! Exactly.

 

I mean, in general, finding your own is a pretty essential part of life. You feel more inviggorated and desire to go out into the world and make a difference. You dont even have to make a difference. The difference is going to be living your own happy lifestyle, doing what you want and trying new things.

 

My point is...well..one last thing, in addition to all this "soul searching stuff" Ive been talking about, I've come to find that I am sort of a transendentalist at heart. Letters, i love letters. I prefer books over kindles, that kind of thing. Technology is great and it benefits our world SO much. From global communications to just texting your grandma. When it takes over the more enjoyable, more simple, more naturistic things in life though, that's kind of sad to me. Sure, we live in a first world country, but there are so many better things to do. I'm not innocent of chillin on the couch with the internet in front of me for most of the day, soaking up technology one day or another, which isn't a bad things at all either. But finding out what really hits you the deepest, what affects you the most, what ignites passion inside you, what fills your soul with life, and your heart with smiles, that. is something that I truly enjoy discovering and I feel is one of the most important things in life.





Pirate for Life

So, I’ve always thought blogging was a cool concept. Online journaling/ blogging about your life, Life experiences, thoughts, and other things. Ive kind of always wanted to do my own blog, but for some reason I never did it. So here I am!  I'm not writing this for any certain reason or for any certain person. Its more of just a blog, about me, McKayla, College girl, Living my life, Embracing the moments, carpe-ing the diem, and sharing it with the world. :)

In less than 5 days, I will be officially moving into and attending East Carolina University, in Greenville, NC. Woot Woot! I’m looking forward to it, at the same time it’s a pretty crazy step forward in life, as it is for anyone really. I’ve decided that walking the stage for graduation isn’t as big as going into college. It’s an awesome moment, and definently an accomplishment too, but the two experiences are definently not the same. I’m excited for college for sure but I’m still not sure how I feel about it completely yet. I think it's just one of those things that youre going to be going through like 50 bazilion ways things are going to go in your head...and you dont really know until you get there. But All in all, I’m proud to be a Pirate, I can't wait to start my first year of my college! Pirate for Life! PURPLE & GOLD!!