L.O.V.E.

  What is love? Where is love?
  Love is an endangered concept in a modern society, the media fills us with ideas of hate; war, scandal, murder, until we don't trust each other any more. (Note that when I say love, I don't mean relationships or sex, I mean love that involves the whole world, a wider and entirely different concept).
  'Where there is love, there is live' - Mahatma Gandhi.
  I say lay down all weapons and bring people together. I can't pretend I'm some sort of prophet and proclaim to know 'the purpose' but I'm pretty sure it's not destruction, built to destroy? That doesn't work, it's positively illogical.
  'I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.' - Martin Luther King Jr.
  It's so dangerous to say things like 'no war' and 'bring back love' but I believe if people said it more often, if people let themselves believe for a second, it might actually come true. It's right there waiting for us to reach out to it, shunned by a generation that acts carelessly.
  Speaking of the generation, I think it could be the one that starts a revolution. Not of politics or arms but of words and emotion. Less complaining, more complementing, calm your anger!
  You can probably assume I look up to a figure such as John Lennon, who was persecuted, and killed, for his ideas. But he spoke sense and he lived happily, I want that.
  'If someone thinks love and peace are a cliché that must have been left behind in the sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.' - John Lennon.
  If you take anything away from this, let it be this: the world we live in is on its way to ruin. Take a look at the anger around you and just think, how do you want it to be, and what can you do about it?

Stress!

Hello planet dwellers,
It's been a while since I posted, and (here comes a terrible excuse) it's because I've been so STRESSED lately.
Stress is such a weird thing, we come across stress everyday and it's always there, on your back, like an annoying hitch-hiking leprechaun, and just about anything causes it. According to teenhelp.com the five 'stressors' that caused the most worry were; school work, parents, friends' problems, romantic relationships and drugs.
How crazy it seems that we accept stress as part of our  lives, even though it has the most negative impacts, and rarely tackle it and try to reduce it. Although according to the national health interview survey 75% of the general population experience at least some stress every two weeks.
Side effects of stress that I've personally suffered with are insomnia, comfort eating, nervous habits (nail biting etc.), headaches/general body aches and even feeling physically sick and experiencing chest pains.
So as a little bit of advice to people taking exams, or busy at work, or having trouble in your personal life, I say just take a few moments, every day, to yourself. Take a few little moments to do something you like and put everything in perspective. It's not a lot, but it might help.
(Notice how I've stressed the word stress throughout...I'm so punny)

Love Is A Bitter Drug

Hey guys,
I warn you this post is going to be somewhat dark and somewhat depressing but no less true than any of my other posts.
Love. It's completely destructive. Even caring about other people creates bad mood. I'm not saying every relationship will end, but even having a happy relationship could ripple into pain in the hearts of people who care but are left outside.
'Where there is love there is pain' - Spanish proverb
I've experienced these sorts of feelings, and some people might think love is a word that is thrown around far too much, but love is everywhere, and love is in everything, in everyone, an innate desire that everyone feels the need to fulfil. Often regardless of the cost.
'Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because somehow they complete you.' - Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
But without love, without caring about someone, without having someone care about you, where's your reason to exist?
 You always need something to fight for, I say, you could be the richest, most successful, most revered person in the WHOLE world. And you could be lonely. I can imagine being totally alone, and I don't ever want to.
'Being deeply loved by someone give you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage' - Lao Tzu
Look after the ones who love you and love the ones who look after you. Cheese to the extreme.
I'm out.
K.T.

Inspiration

Happy December!
Everyone enjoy opening their advent calender? Me too!
Anyway, today I want to talk about what inspires me, and what inspirations actually is.
DEFINITION: 'Stimulation of the mind or emotions to a high level of feeling or activity'
Inspiration is simply your drive, what pushes you to do something or brings about a change in you that you may not have previously thought of or desired.
Personally, at least in my poetry I'm inspired by nature and Snow Patrol lyrics, as these are things that make my mind move and come up with something I can be proud of.
"You will never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write" - Saul Bellow
However when we're talking real life, and motivations for actions, I would have to say that most of my inspiration comes from me and my friends, this is what pushes me to do what I do. Not going to lie, I act often to make my life more comfortable and to do what I want to do, and who can say they don't do that
Self inspiration is extremely underrated, but here is a bit of inspiration to leave you with...
"One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter" Henry David Thoreau