Midnight In Paris lessons:)

Midnight in Paris is an amazing movie!! Everyone should see it. I saw it with my momma when she visited me in KC. It was soooo inspiring and i'm still thinking about it a week later so i had to write about it. I wrote this message actually to my friend Bre because we both loved it so much.

So here is what i learned/what i generally loved about it/how it inspired me:)

1. ive been thinking about real world after graduating and all the plans and places i could go! mostly for fun with little stress. but the biggest lesson from the movie was that you should go and do where you feel is right for you and like just "GO DO WHAT YOU WANT! WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY!" sort of thing:)
2. i was overall super inspired by his independence to just decide to stay in Paris.
3. I was overall inspired by how devoted of a writer he is and just watching it made me want to write more and find things/places that inspire me to write more.
4. that whole speech by hemmingway about not thinking about death when you're with the person you love lol that whole thing was sooo intruiging to me! Like all of your fears should subside when you're with the person you love:)
5. You don't need people in your life that hold you back or criticize you just because they've been in your life forever and it's comfortable for them to stay in it like his fiancee was. Overall theme from that being like don't live the life that is expected of you or what pleases others.
6. Then there's the whole wishing he lived in a different generation. This lesson shouted at me like the "DO WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY!" lesson:). It all of sudden became crystal clear that saying living in another generation is COMPLETE fantasy. Like yes, i say the 50's are innocent and love tons of things about it but either way, they had no internet or air conditioning or microwave or advanced medicine. And just seeing it played out how he met someone from the 20's and she didn't like the 20's and wanted to live even earlier was just SO FREAKING INTERESTING!!!! because i am totally like that whether it be wishing i'd live in the past or living too much in the future.
7. also i learned that living in the present IS interesting to someone. Like that is why it is so fun to read my journals from elementary school and middle school and high school etc, because it is so interesting to see how i thought "back in the day". While daily situations seem boring, it will be interesting to me in the future so i should journal more about daily happenings. It gave me an outside perspective that life is in fact interesting everyday...it just may take us a few years down the road to realize that.

Katie

Live Each Day As If It's Your Last

"live each day as if it's your last" does not have to be some big act. it is not about going skydiving or traveling the world or telling your secret crush that you love them. I have learned this is talking about the little things. eating that last piece of cake, going for a swim and getting your hair wet even if it means an extra shower, choosing people before money or time or anything materialistic. There are so many people that would take a plane ride to go to someone's funeral, but make all the excuses in the world about why they don't have the time or money to visit the person while they're still alive. I'm not talking elderly people, I'm talking family members, long distance friends...you really never know when the last time you'll get to see them is and I know I'd rather have the people I love visit me for a vacation and none of them come to my funeral rather than vice versa.
The whole idea of this comes from an article my dad sent me a few years ago about this famous author who wrote a list of all the things she wished she had done during her life. She wrote it while she was on her deathbed. I only remember these 3 things, but reading the article was extremely powerful and obviously the lesson has stuck with me.
She wrote:
1. i wish i would have said yes to dessert
2. i wish i would have not cared about messing up my hair when i rode in a convertible
3. i wish i wouldn't have told my kids to go watch tv as much

Dad, if you have the article will you send it to me again? or I'm sure you remember this woman's name and I can google it.

Anywho, thought it was interesting how the line "live each day like it's your last" has become cliche and almost meaningless, but when you really evaluate the little things in life...it can mean so much more!!

Katie

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As I lay in my bed, arms and legs outstretched, I smell the sweet scent of an innocent summer. The crickets chirping in the yard. The cool breeze coming through the open windows and sweeping across my over heated body. I wore a thin cotton tank top with matching thin cotton shorts. My curly hair had its way with my pillow as I laid there not knowing that this was childhood. This was everything I would ever wish for the rest of my years. This was the moment of perfect peace and security that I long to carry with me everyday. Sometimes I get a wind of that sweet summer scent. Pulling me back to my innocence. And it's every bit as perfect as it was then.

The Beauty of Being Human

In the comfort of your arms I go
To let my soul and feeling flow
Reach inside and bring to light
Everything I've been trying to fight
The fire that has built for years
By the everlasting fuel of my fears
Turns to ashes
As my body crashes
And is released by a river of tears

Big City

Big city gloom
Looming over the concrete
In matching grays
Robotic, routine, the people come
Each window hasn't seen the sun
Trapped in fog, covered by clouds
People wade slowly through the crowds
Sluggish ways give fuel to suffocating days
Darkness falls with each brick laid.

randomness

**Twitter and Facebook are proof that more people need to own journals.

**I would LOVE to study song writing. I just thought of this because I am obsessed with song lyrics and being able to write LIKE them, well I want to learn how to write them. That would be so cool to take a song writing class....if i went to some hipster music school....dangit. But it's maybe a writing goal I will work toward. Like really listening to lyrics and trying to figure out the art of it. Also, there are 2 CDs i just uploaded that i got from a friend and they have the lyrics printed in the inside of the CD. I used to love reading those, but I just never buy CDs anymore!! When it's all written out, song writing is just poetry really.

I'll work on that!

**Bless others with your riches. If you think you are not rich, you need to realize what country you live in.

**I wrote this morning at work in my beaaaautiful new journal from Urban Outfitters. I am going to dedicate it as like my daily warm up journal. Maybe even at school this year, if i keep going on this morning person schedule, I can warm up my mind every morning and write every single morning. Wouldn't THAT be a feat.

goodnight! xoxo Katie