You

What makes you YOU? What makes me Me?  Anyone else wonders about that? Am I  just a mix of my parents or do I have a bit of some me-ness in me? Well, I had a talk with my dad about this the other day and I still can't get it out of my mind. In Alice in wonderland, it says something about muchness, I like to think about muchness as our ness. I love the book Alice in Wonderland, there are so many cute and sublime quotes in it. Alice kinda reminds me of myself, sometimes I find myself in someone else's book. I love almost, no ALL of the characters in that book. Alice, the White Rabbit, The Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat and most of all the Mad Hatter. The book has so many meanings, sometimes when I read it it is just something to read, other times I look for something I can use. My all-time favorite quotes from Alice in Wonderland is either "Off with their head" or "You're mad...Bonkers, but I'll tell you a secret all the best people are" or "Imagination is the Only Weapon in the War Against Reality". 

 I love this quote because it really is true, right? Just imagine if we didn't have imagination? I personally think that would be the worst place to live, we wouldn't have come up with all-out inventions or have anything today. Just in general life without imagination is a horrible world. Life would be bleak, but I guess if we didn't know any better we would be happy. Still, if I just think about that I shudder. :)

j.h.

Happiness

What is happiness? What makes ME happy? These are some questions I have asked myself. When I was younger my mom would always tell me to smile, that I had a beautiful smile. I never believed her, I was bullied/teased constantly because of my looks and the way I acted. I knew I was weird, but hearing that from who you thought were friends is really painful. Since I was bullied constantly, I almost never had a smile on my face, even after elementary school I still did not smile. By then it had turned into a habit. Then one day, when I was at Girls Camp some of the counselors there told us to challenge ourselves, to have a goal. When I had left home earlier that week, my mom told me once again, that I should smile and that MY smile was beautiful. I thought of her when I made my goal that day at camp. My goal was to smile even if I didn't want to, to smile because I wanted to. Since that day I have tried to smile and now it is a habit to smile. What I realized later was that I shouldn't have let those kids get to me because I am who I am because I want to be. What makes ME happy? I don't really know, but what I do know is that a smile is contagious, so let go of grudges and things and SMILE. So what makes you happy? Stick to that and please just smile. :)

j.h.

Inspiration

What inspires us? Is it our family, different sceneries or something totally different? My inspiration usually comes after a dream, my dreams have so many weird things happening that I just can't help but write about them. What do you instantly think of or see in your mind when you look at this picture?                                    
I instantly think of hiking to the mountains somewhere and being with my family to see the sunset. I can see myself grumbling about being woken up so early in the morning and it is so cold. Then once I see the beautiful sunset, I would have forgotten all of my tiredness and coldness. It is such a beautiful scene, I wish one day that I will be able to go to such a wonderful place. That is what inspires me, looking at all these beautiful places and wondering if I'll ever see them in the flesh.
What inspires you? Whatever it is I bet it's beautiful, so keep letting that inspire you and let other, new things inspire you too. :)

j.h.