Roads

Life is all a journey isnt it?

When you first set out you dont really know where you're going, how youll get there or who'll you meet along the way. Its all twists and turns, ups and downs and a great adventure.
I feel sorry for people who seem to set theyre life goal at about 8 and stick to it to the letter until theyve done it. When i was little i wanted to be a teacher then i wanted to be in marketing then i gave up on the idea of going to university and buggered off to France to live in a tent.

Some people have a view of what should happen in life that by 16 youll be dating someone and youll be madly in love. 18 youll be at university studying. 20 youll be married. 25 youll have kids and be living with someone you love with all your heart.

If life happened like that it would be miserable. Life should always be unpredictable.

Someone asked me what i want from life, if i could have anything what it would be. My simple answer was "happiness" what ever shape it takes its still happiness.

"People take different roads to fulfilment and happiness, just becuase they're not on your road does not mean they've gotten lost"

Which is true, everyone is different. Some people may find happiness in love, in a hobby, in a job or in creating life.

My biggest hope is that i get happiness in my life.

"Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road but when many people walk it the road comes into existance"

Live in Lizards

I seem to be accumulating more things with lizards on them. Rather like my little collection though, nice and colourful.



This was my first Lizard, all the way from the Carribean none the less from my aunt. I think its in Iguanan (apologise if ive spelt that wrong) which i believe is the symbol of the island, like the thistle is to Scotland.



I got a little metal lizard from a friend when she went on holiday from tenerife.



And for my birthday i got not one, not two, but three metal lizards on a set of hooks thats yet to be attached to anything but currently sits infront of my books.


I love how colourful they all are, maybe they're the universes way for apologising for the beareded dragon that jumped at me.... ?

Green tea?

Thought id share my little bookcase garden.



I dont know why but its the sorta random thing id expect to be in alice in wonderland, yeah i dont quite know where the connection comes from either but i rather like my little plants, feel kinda bad though cause some of them arent in the best of health although the little ivy seems to be quite hardy, same cant be said for the rather brown grass.


1 Tea cup + 1 plant = a little CO2 absorber

Language

Ever had the urge to write but not had the wors?
Or know you have to write but not known what to say, 2000 word essay anyone?

Its amazing that 26 symbopls (at least in the english language) can be used to express anything our soul desires.

Who decided on the shape of the symbols that millions, billions of people recognise?

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Who decided what they should sound like ?

Why they sound different in other languages even though they are still written the same way ?

Other languages can look like art, chinease for example or ancient egyptian - when your letters are fish and birds how do you pronounce them ?

Gone are the days when writting and reading were for the provealedge few. Everyone in Britain has the opertunity to learn, an oppertunity that many take for granted. Across the country literacy rates are falling yet in other countried children walk miles every day to cram themselves into over filled class rooms with the hope that an education can change their lives.

I do not understand how a person can't enjoy cuddling up in bed or lying in the sun with a good book. By not being able to read people are depriving themselves of the chance of a life time.
- To walk through a closet and end up in Narnia.
- To recieve that letter written with the emerald green writing inviting you to study at Hogwarts.
- To feel the butterflies as Romeo swears his undying love for Juliet.

Yes i know theyre all films but an hour and a half of CGI does not make up for a rainy afternoon on the couch with chocolate and a well worn, bent pages, crinkley spined book.



I know its ironic that the post all about literacy probably contains the most spelling mistakes to date. I like writing but my spelling will always leave something to be desired.

Just had to share this....

An online nation ...?

Having a discussion today with my grandparents when i realised that the internet is still such a foreign place to some people. For people of my generation it is just accepted that the internet is there, its a massive pressence in some peoples lives, facebook in the morning, msn in the evening, twitter in between.
If someone says they dont have facebook we look at them like theyre still using a horse and cart. Why do we feel the need to live online?

Beautiful sunny weather outside and so many people are sitting in the house updating statuses about the nice weather and how bored they are. Why not be out in the nice weather, at the beach in the park, going a walk?

In our haste to appear popular, always online, always texting, always phoning we are doing the complete opposite. Even when we're out with friends we are still texting, updating status - this has lead to the new internet phenomenum of "online friends". People who we will text or email or talk to on facebook but when we see them in person we dont even smile, wave or say hello but we will text them once theyve walked past or say to them on facebook "i saw you today". A never ending cycle where ipod and phones are the safety net that stop us from looking alone, blinding us to the fact that in our haste to make ourselves seem popluar we are actually isolating ourselves.

Isn't music marvelous?

In a few short lyrics every feeling under the sun can be conveyed. A song can make you smile, make you cry or yell TUNE!!!

Songs can remind you of the good times and the bad times.

Black eyed peas - Ive got a feeling will always remind me in France cause it played constantly.
The killers - Are we human will always make me smile
Jason Mraz - Im yours will always make me feel better even when im in the foulest of moods.

When you find a new song you like you listen to it on repeat until you have the lyrics down to a fine art (current song of the moment is hey, soul sister by train - it makes me smile and its gonna be huge)

When your out and "that" song comes on you grab your friends and run to the dance floor, you just cant help yourself.

The slightly retro song that makes people around you dance and sing, when the pub unites as one and sings and dances like its the 1920's (paulo nautini, pencil full of lead)

The songs you sing in the shower, the songs that you listen to when your in yourself cause you know you shoulnt like them but do, the songs you dance to when your getting ready for a night out, the songs you just wish the rest of the world had heard.

Music is amazing, it connects people in a way words alone cant. It doesnt matter if you dont speak the langauage of the song everyone whose ever listened to music can understand the beat.

A world without music would be just plain dull.