So... This is the part where I am generally supposed to wrote about myself, correct?

I'm currently in my senior year of highschool. Soon, I'll be taking the world head on. (Funny thought. Why do I seem to think I'm only truly living life when I'm out of school? Why don't I start now?) I'm slightly less than average height, majorly less than average size. I've got braces which I really quite love. They make my mouth interesting. Do YOUR teeth glow in the dark? I don't think so. I say with reasonable accuracy that green is my favourite colour, although I like colour in general. First, I can say it's beautiful. Then I ponder on how we see colour, how reflections and refractions and the wave properties of photons translate into this wonderful world we see every day, and I get filled with awe. (I could do this for just about anything)

I absolutely LOVE to write. Words are truly incredible things. I want to get into some sort of writing career eventually. Hopefully write a book. If it gets published, great, but just the simple act of writing it would be lovely.

Photography is my second most prevalent passion. I have an SLR which I carry around with me quite often, though not nearly often enough. I thoroughly enjoy being able to capture a single fleeting moment of time and hold on to it for as long as possible. I'm planning on going to a photography school within the next couple years. Possibly get into photojournalism. Granted, if I take that route, I'm likely to be broke a fair bit of the time, due to both the lack of steady income, and high price of all those beautiful toys, but it would be oh so worth it.

Yes, as you can likely guess, I Love and follow Jesus. I am, however, fairly hesitant to call myself a Christian. As words tend to do, the meaning of the word ha changed over the years, and I do not feel as though the word, with its current definition, accurately describes my life or what I Love and hold to be true.

I believe that over the last few months, I have become obsessed with change. Somewhere along the way, I underwent a massive shift in my ideals. Now, I am never content to stay still. There is always more to learn, always more to see. 'Seek and ye shall find'. Perhaps that really just means seek and you will find that there is far more to seek. Whatever the case, In recent times, I've become rather apathetic towards my schooling. Probably not the best idea. This is likely simply sounding like the musings of an idealistic young kid who is very much out of touch with reality. It is possible. But perhaps what we view as reality isn't really real at all? Maybe it will take someone to venture off into the abyss to point out to us that we have had it wrong all along. I plan to see if there really is more beyond these walls.

I want to change a life. I want to volunteer at a youth shelter. I want to work at a soup kitchen. You have no idea how much I Love seeing lives changed. When you see the life and excitement in the eyes of someone who has realized that life is worth living, you grow with that person. You share in the moment. You share in their joy. And even with the opposite, there is a real, true beauty in the most painful moments of our lives. If you see someone hurting, go listen to them. Just sit and listen. When you hear the anguish in their voice, nothing else really matters. There is you. There is them. And there is the moment. "Empty again in Wise Poverty".

I'm actually quite a geek. Math and Physics excite me. I could go on for hours simply discussing the magnificent intricacies of the known universe. Granted, my knowledge is small, but you get a lot more out of food with a burning hunger than a full stomach.

Music inspires me. Genereally speaking, it is the lyrics put to aforementioned music that I cling to. Recently, I've been listening to a lot of mewithoutYou. Listen to them. Now. Aaron Weiss is such a brilliant, humble, refreshing, intriguing, socially awkward man with some wicked awesome dance moves. Even if you don't like his music, listen to the man. He challenges you to ask questions rather than arrive at an answer, and I feel that approach alone has been one of the driving forces in my life.

Above ALL else, I am driven, motivated, and ultimately kept alive by Love. Love is all I really know anymore. (Even though I'm single, and likely to stay that way for at least a while longer. At least tehcnically speaking.) Love is one of the msot exciting, inticing, intoxicating experiences an individual can know. It reminds me of what is truly important. What I'm really for here. Pretty much everything I have written thus far can be somehow related to Love, because that's what I base my whole life around.

And by the way, I tend to ramble. (see above) If you read all this, thanks. But in all actuality, it was more for me than you. It's to keep me grounded, remind me who I am, and eventually, to remind me of who I once was.

For too long cast aside, stripped of dignity, opportunity
Countless sleepless days in underestimation
But under these anxious, darkening leaves
No word goes unheard
And no deed is without compensation
When the workers come to collect their wages
Now the straw men are swaying in the distance
The have-nots calling in the listless wind
Whispering for retribution
Waiting for some voice to call them
From the bottom where you left them
So onward friends from our battered homes
Forward to the onrush of cast stones, crushed bones
And the gallows

We still skip our stones despite broken bones
We still skip our stones despite broken bones
Break my arms and I'll throw it with my teeth
Tell me to throw one And I'll throw three
Still disturbing the surface of safety without apology