My opinions and purpose are always changing, though one thing remains constant. I’ve always wanted to live for something outside of just ‘me’. I’m not the girl that goes around claiming she’s this and that and that I’m going to change the world, I’m just a girl who goes to uni, has a job and wants to do what she can. I have a burning passion to help and set people free from foreign places, both mentally and physically, that we would struggle to comprehend. I don’t really know if this is making sense to you, but that’s what I live for. I’m 18 and I’m already trying to save up to spend half a year on the road with a few like-minded people supporting awareness of huge world crisis that most people would have never heard of. I wouldn’t even want to ask if most people knew what was happening in Burma or Africa at the moment. But hey, everyone has a different path, different dreams and a different destiny. We all have one life and a billion different ways to live it. I hope that I can leave a footprint on the world and know that I went beyond my known capabilities to make this world a place that I can be happy that I existed in.
I’ll leave with this quote by Nelson Mandela that you’ve most likely read before, but I think it fits with what I’ve been saying.
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves,
"who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented & fabulous?"
Actually,
who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightend about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We are born to make manifest the glory of God
that is within us.
It's not just in some of us;
it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsiously give other people permission
to do the same.
As we're liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others."
COMMENT.
KAT!E
DRUG & SMOKE FREE SINCE 1991
Why on earth would you want to compromise the sanity of your own mind? Watching 'A Beautiful Mind' has totally enlightened and inspired me to never take this for granted.
CEST XVIII
FASHION: I don't trust models with empty stomach breath to tell me what taste is.
Death is only the beginning.
