"All we want, (whether we are honeybees, salmon, trash-collecting ants, ponderosa pines, coyotes, human beings, or stars), is to love & be loved, to be accepted, cherished & celebrated simply for being who we are."

Isn't that so true? So here's some challenges for you this week continuing into next thursday. :3

• Tell two people EXACTLY how much they mean to you, at least one of them being someone you wouldn't normally tell so much too. :) why stop at TWO?
• Make someone gleeful. We could all use some more GLEE in our life.
• Do something nice for someone you who you don't necessarily like. You don't even have to tell them it's you if it's too embarrassing. ^_~
• Support a cause. It can be worthwhile, or silly.
• Contemplate why you love your favorite people. Maybe you would like some more of those qualities in yourself, eh?
• Write down exactly how you feel at a peak of emotion.
• Learn some cool new words
• Meet a new person
• TELL ME WHAT YOU DID AND HOW IT WORKED OUT!
  

Them.

It's that one relationship you want to escape, but it constantly drags you back in. It's the person you can't stand but feel like you can't leave behind either. It's that love/hate relationship that keeps you coming back for more and miserable. And even when you want out, there seems like there's no way to escape that you want to take. Here's my advice: Don't settle, Don't back down, Don't compromise. No good will come out of it, and you shouldn't have to sacrifice who you are, for ANYONE. and anyone who tells you different is lying to you.

“Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.”

True Love isn't selfish, it's selfLESS. When you love the other person more than you love yourself, when you think about what's best for both of you, not just what you'll get out of it.
Anyone have some lessons learned, perhaps ones learned the hard way? I want to know. Tell me about it if you feel comfortable. We won't judge you here.

RAINBOWS! because everything is better with them. :D

you know i saw not ONE, but a DOUBLE rainbow yesterday?! i was just swinging away, talking on the phone, and all of the sudden BOOM. I noticed it. isn't that extraordinarily gleeful? :D it was all cloudy, but i love clouds. my camera just doesn't like their lighting. ^^

i've been reading some interesting stories recently, and something cause a spark to flare up in my mind. "what do i want to do before i die?" i know i'm really young to be thinking about such things, but some things i think i couldn't bear to miss out on. so i've decided to make an "experience bucket list". things i want to be a part of before i depart. :)

• kiss someone in the rain. i've always wanted to, and you know what, i want to liplock someone while the sky is crying, and i'm proud of it!
• do something unforgettable to someone, even if no one else ever knows about it besides that person, including me. ^^
• be an influence, start a movement, help shape a generation where narrowmindedness and comformity has become acceptable instead of the unacceptable it is.
  
• make peoples' days. make someone smile when no one else can, turn someone's attitude around when they're having to worst day of their life. make someone SMILE, if only for a second, because it's an action so magical and full of life, and we don't take part in it often enough. and do it over and over and over and over again.
• i want to paint or sketch something that will hang in someone's home. even if it's my own. ^_~
• even if i become famous {which i HIGHLY doubt}, i always want to be ME. i don't want to become a pompous little brat who's so full of herself. i want to be a lovely little pixie of a creature that always does something you're not expecting, and can switch between sweet and devilish in the space of a few seconds. [and by the way, if this ever happens, i've already decided, i will hang out with my fans, take pictures with them, and sign things for them. because inside i'll still be the fangirl i am now. i might have to adopt a you sign mine, i'll sign yours policy. xD]

(i think i might get a book for my fans to sign. :D you know how EPIC that would be? and when i get sad, i'll just look at all the sweet notes they've left me. why hasn't anyone THOUGHT of this? hmmm... i'll look into it. and find something that might make me famous one day. who knows? i might become an interior decorator or something one day.)

• i want to design some clothes that someone just HAS to have. and you know what? i just might give it to them. :D [you should know that i feel like the joker telling people that gotham deserves a better class criminal. and i'm going to give it to them. ;)]
  
• i want to get married and live in an apartment with my life partner. :) and til death do us part.... and i want to do this all in a retro thrift wedding dress. oh, heck, yes.
• i'd like to take some professional photos with someone like doe deere. ^^ i've got a knack for angles you know, and she's one of my greatest influences. she's funky, outstanding, unique, and oh-so-loveably colorful {& we haven't even STARTED on her clothing choices. ;)}
• I want to publish something worth publishing. Whether it be photographs, a short story, sketches, paintings, a novel, a poem, i don't care. :) and i wouldn't mind if i met some of my authoristic heroes either. ^_~
• I want to create makeup styles so crazy and amazing that people whisper as i walk past. and then ask me where i'm going, or why i'm dressed up. and i'll tell them the truth. it's because i'm 10% crazy, 90% fun, and 100% awesome. you can quote me on that if you like. ^_~
• I want to dress in something fun, something that makes me happy, every day possible. why not?
  

So what do YOU want to do? Comment if you like darlings. ^_^

"And anyone who wanted to criticize me for forgiving him at that second can go to hell because when you get that feeling in your stomach, and when you can do nothing but feel for someone, you do forgive them, because if you didn’t, you’d kill yourself hating them."
“Fear is the heart of love.”
http://www.fictionpress.com/s/2144375/1/Agony
the story that inspired my list. it might not be your style, but i think it's pretty darn amazing. :)

Rainbows and Glee ^^

hello everyone! i've been really active on twitter lately, from lack of things to do, besides sitting on the swings dreaming and trying to touch the trees with my toes while listening to some of my favorite songs at the moment. what things make you GLEEFUL? Personally, at the moment, these things make me smile. (:

• old-fashioned typewriter fonts such as this one. they somehow make every word more chic, and magical, like i was sitting at a typewriter at the moment, lacking the compulsion to use capitalization.
• checkered patterns. they make me want to break out a sharpie and COLOR THEM. graffiti if you will. :3 they leave so much creative room, a rainbow perhaps? or colors that clash perfectly?
• GRAFFITI. need i say more?
  
• Owl City. :) every song makes me smile and feel a glow inside.
• Andy Sixx. I want to MARRY him. Agreed? I've always had a thing for the emos and the bad boys.
• lollipop. {giant ones are the best} my nickname and my fiendish pleasure. You can find them in all sorts of colors and flavors if you know where to look. plus they always make a good prop. it's almost too easy to look attractive while eating one. ^^
• friends. You should tell yours how much you appreciate them. drop them a note, give them a compliment, make them a card or send them a little gift with a lot of thought. because who picks you up off the ground? they do. who cheers you up? they do. who keeps your secrets? they do. who's there for you? they are. (:
  
• cinnamon gum ^^ super yummy with lots of flavor. plus people kissing you will think its interesting. ;)
  
• powerade. it's been my pick-me-up the last couple of days while i've been pulling late-nights and early-mornings. plus, grape is oh-so-yummy. and [psst] it doesn't give you coffee breath, which is never yummy. ):
  
• two pairs of earrings i've acquired. these really chic vintage earrings my friend gave me in the shape of two roses and these multi-colored feather earrings. ^^ lots of compliments on them both
  
• bubble bath. i took one, and they feel amazing. plus, i get to be surrounded by one of my favorite and most colorful friends, BUBBLES!

What makes YOU gleeful my darlings?