Saturday, May 28, 2011

Overthinking Again

 So my mind gets off track a lot. I think that's been established. You could keep me in physical science or geometry all day; I'm just going to be imagining what the world would be like from a bird's eye view (Google Earth isn't good enough). My desire to fly will probably have me jumping off a cliff during a psychotic episode someday. Oh well. Dreamers gonna dream.
 Anyway, before I got off track from my topic of being off track, I was going to tell you how I'm getting way too philosopher-ish with my wondering. Currently, my focuses have ranged from "What is life?" to "What is existance?" and many of the other forever unsolved mysteries of the universe. The slightly easier ones were coming to me back in the fall of last year. Those were in the natures of "What do people consider intelligent? Is it the ability to retain knowledge, a high amount of retained knowledge, making good decisions, or a combination?"
I'm not a normal teenager.
 Out of nowhere, I feel compelled to tell you of the misfortunes I endure every time someone I don't know holds a door for me.
 Imagine you held a door open for someone. You expect them to say "Thanks.", right?
Enter  my world. The word "thanks" is loosely translated to "I am glad that you have acknowledged something positively." Unless if it's said sarcastically, in which case it means "You have dishonored the privilege of life."
 Whenever a stranger holds a door for me, I don't really think it's necessarily in the right, considering my very strange self-esteem views. I wish you could turn down door-holdings the way you can with an offer of a seat. Every time, all I can do is mutter "THANKS." and run through the door before they can look back at me.

Am I really the only one that sees the entire Earth move so peacefully in that natural harmony? It's almost as if the trees have their own breath while they dance along the breeze. Even the overcast sky shines brighter than a dim indoor ceiling. If I could reach out a million miles and touch the farther reaches my night sky, it would be like flying. The reason I love flying so much is... Well, just think of it like this:
 Think of all the land in the world. More than you can ever stand on. No human has ever touched all of the corners and in-betweens of the planet. Now think of all of the oceans added to that. There's far more of water than land covering the Earth. Now think of that multiplied by about 10,000 feet of height to achieve.
  When you fly, you can touch all of that.
There is no limit and every possibility. Being like this makes me feel like I'm stuck on the ground. A mermaid wishes for feet, a human wishes for wings, and a bird wishes for french fries.
It's quite a sick world, right?

Friday, May 20, 2011

Too Many Lists

So yup. No post last week. Sorry about that (as if anyone even noticed). Moving on.

I like lists. There's some part of me that organizes anything and everything. Give me a packet of Skittles, you'll probably find me sorting them by color, making the numbers of colors even, and eliminating the deformed ones first because I have issues THAT BAD. That's just another one of my OCD things.
Lists just seem so... Easy to read to me. Simple. I have a ton of lists I haven't gotten to writing down anywhere, so I just decided to take my chance now.

Favorite words:
  • Ebony
  • Iridescant
  • Lullabies
  • Reverie
  • Nostalgia (it always reminds me of noses)
  • Always
  • Wonderstruck (it's in a song I like, therefore, it is a word)
  • Wondrified (I made it up, so what?)
  • Enchanted
  • Forever
  • Symphony
  • Euphony
  • Dawn
  • Swim
  • Ebb
  • You
  • Us
  • Dream
  • Heart
  • Awkward
  • Lovely
  • Everywhere
  • Him
  • Her
  • He
  • She
  • Love
Places I want to visit:
  • Scotland and/or Ireland
  • Salar de Uyuni
  • A black hole
  • Mars
  • Alaska in northern lights season
  • The Palm Islands and the Burj Al Arab
Bad habits I have:
  • Biting my nails
  • Getting upset too easily
  • Being horrible to the people I love
  • Making too many lists
  • Crying for no reason
  • Laziness in general
Irrational desires that probably will never happen:
  • Fly. Actually fly. Not skydive or bungee jump. Fly.
  • Meet Adam Young
  • Publish a novel
  • Be inspirational
  • Be told I'm beautiful by someone that really means it
  • Have a first love that loves back (it's personal, stupid, and weird, but true)
Sad songs:
  • Vanilla Twilight by Owl City
  • Silhouettes by Swimming With Dolphins
  • Brielle by Sky Sailing
  • Wherever You Are (Winnie the Pooh version)
  • I Live Alone by Sky Sailing
  • Lonely Lullabye by Owl City
Fears:
  • Rejection of any kind
  • Ants
  • Not being able to move
  • Being underwater (or at least my eyes or nose underwater)
  • What I'll become
Personality disorders I have too many symptoms of to ignore:
  • Avoidant
  • Schizotypal
  • Dependant
  • Obsessive-Compulsive
Things I'll never forget:
  • How lonely I felt when I couldn't sleep that night
  • When he hugged me for the first time
  • When the pastor called out to me: "You don't have to be alone"
  • My father's stubble on my face when he kissed me goodnight
  • The panic and happiness when I got baptized
  • The feeling of him when he slept on my shoulder
  • His face when he broke down right in front of me    

    Thursday, May 5, 2011

    Music is My Partial Failure

     While I cleaned up the vocals a little, I never really had the chance to create a piano part for the track I was planning to post here. I felt pretty good about what I'd recorded and not so good at the same time. The only problem is that as far as I see, there's no way to post it on here. I've tried using Windows Movie Maker, Tumblr, AOA Audio Extractor and nothing is working. The best I can do is post it without the end on Tumblr. Not what I was trying to do. I guess I at least owe you the lyrics to my song:
     Liquids Of Life
    You are the shade of the raindrops
    And also just the sheen of a summer sky
    You spent your whole life dancing down from clouds
    And wondering why (you wanted to fly)
    Possible chorus to be added
    I am the color of a heartbeat
    And I am just a clone of a fragrant rose
    I wasted my time bleeding lonely
    And wanting to know (why I wanted to go)
    Possible chorus
    Soon the blood got thinner, then you turned to ice
    And we both knew that we were losing liquids of life
    So we stirred in harmony and salts of light
    But now I see that we were always right

    I am red and you are blue
    And purple is my favorite color too
     
    Being the teenager that I am, I have a Gaia account, where I posted the song for some feedback.
    The first reply read:
    "I thought it was beautiful. Very colourful & I can see now that you listen to Owl City. I really liked it, it invoked happy thoughts, for me. It was really cute, too. Those last two lines were adorable." 
    The second:
    "Beautiful. Unique. Inspiring.
    Those are the three things you need to create something stunning. You nailed it."
    I can tell you now, when I first read those, I SQUEED. Never had I really felt comfortable enough to let complete strangers critique my work... Of any kind at all, not just song lyrics.

    The story behind this song?
    Well, I was in my computer class and decided I wasn't going to do the work. So I wrote.
     ...
    Alright. Long story it is.
    I pulled out the piece of paper I list albums and songs on so I could add "Blue and Red" to it, under "An Airplane Carried Me To Bed". When I did this, I started thinking about purple (my favorite color). I began thinking of how I feel that I'm the less enchanting part of another equation I find beautiful.
     Then it came to me.
    Red, I thought.
    I'm red, and he's blue. Beautiful, graceful, swimmingly blue. He just seems like a blue kind of person, with eyes like those. I must be red, dark and aggressive-seeming, never showing the true nature of pain I put myself through.
    We became blood and water, two of the most life-sustaining liquids. In fact, water is a part of blood, but not vice-versa, making this even better fitting. I'm terrified of water and love it. Thorns on the rose surround and isolate any beauty living there. I'm a sunrise kinda person and he's a daylight kinda person.
    God, why are metaphors my specialty?
    Anyway, we've become different than the way we were. I'm not sure if the "harmony and salts of light" have come into play yet, but they haven't proved to be absent yet.
    And that's all I need to be sure of.