Wanderlust

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We're trapped in a small city got nowhere to go. 

Where city lights are dim and buildings are just that tall. 

We kept our hopes up high thinking bout' conquering the world.

With young blood running through our veins, we thought anything was possible. 

We dreamt of brick pavements and medieval streets. 

Walking side by side with nothing to worry.

But we're just trapped in a small city.

Too young too be talking about waiting for "we"

We're still scratching our heads wondering,

Whether to choose us, or our dreams.

But it was never up to us to make decisions.

It was never really that easy.

We're just children.

Of people who're introverts to the world. 

Sometimes faith is merely a consolation.

What we need is real actions.

But we're still trapped in a small city.

Talking loud and trying to break free.

Do you want to be beautiful?

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We decide what is pretty, or beautiful. It's entirely up to ourselves.

Nothing can truly define beauty. You and I both know that.

I look inside the mirror and sometimes I don't like the way I look. Especially on mornings, when I wake up. I see my arms and thighs a tad bit larger than yesterday, I see a layer of skin coming out under my chin, I see my face rounder and rounder the more I stare at it. I think a lot of people can relate to this. Truth is, it's all delusions. 

I mean, duhhh society has standards for beauty, but truth is, nobody really cares.

Really. Nobody cares.

I mean sure, if you don't look nice enough, there are always double standards. But again, it doesn't matter. 

Mentality is important, as long as you don't let negative things get to you.

Think about this.

You want to look pretty, but really, will people like you more if you're pretty. Yes, but not really that much at all. Maybe you're thinking "Hmm even just that little boost would be nice." Heh, you're not that shallow. You don't want to be that shallow.

What is pretty anyway? 

And what if you're pretty and people like you because you're pretty? Would you want people to like you just because you're pretty? Hell no. You don't want that.

Truth is, people will like you if you have a great personality. People will also like you if you have skills, or intelligence or just about anything that makes you stand out. People will like you if you have a character that outshines your appearance. Fixing your character, sculpting who you are, and being a better person takes you a longer way than facials and lipstick and a strict diet. 

Don't get me wrong, facials and makeup are fun. Diet for health and weight loss, that's cool. 

I'm talking about obsession over how you look. 

For weight loss, same goes to makeup, as long as you love yourself for how you look under all those clothing and foundation, deep into your bones through your skin and flesh. As long as you still love yourself, nude. 

I'm okay with how I look, but I do have plans to lose weight and tone my body up because it boosts my confidence when I have a great body. But I still don't mind how I look now, well maybe a little to be honest, but people around me don't mind me being a little flabby or having a double chin. They like me for who I am. 

That got me thinking what if they don't like me because I'm not exactly ideal or on par with their standards of beauty.Would I be okay? No. I'd be super depressed. But knowing there are people out there who will like you for who you are, and trust me there are people like that (like almost 80 percent of people considering 20 percent are psychopaths, I mean like real psychopaths, like mental patients) I won't want people to like me just because they like how I look. 

Can you understand what I'm saying? It's so messy. My train of thoughts is always jumbled up so everything I pen down is also jumbled up. No kidding. 

Point is...let me catch a breath...okay, point is, surround yourself with good and positive people. Think positive, have fun, be who you are. There are so many ways you can be with nice people, and there are so many ways of being beautiful. 

People who favour physical beauty more than what's on the inside will also one day love someone who is so much better on the inside than the outside. If not, they'd probably end up with an unhappy love life or marriage or life in general. Not cursing anyone, no offence, just putting up blunt assumptions which are pretty true. 

Do I make sense? I don't know where this is going. This is a shower thought tbt.

POINTS ARE:

5. Personality will always outweigh physical appearance. (on rare occasions the latter will win, but just on rare occasions. It won't matter. Pinky promise. ;) )

4. Don't let the negativity get to you.

3. Surround yourself with positive people.

2. Be true to yourself, be who you are. 

1. You are beautiful, if you put your mind to it.  

How do I know this? Hah! Pretty girls don't know the things that I know. 

Just kidding. I planned this, lol, just wanted to use the line from Magnets - Disclosure ft. Lorde.

#SELFLOVE

Love, C.

Fairytales.

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Golden wings fluttered gracefully,

And sparkles of gold on it's skirt.

It bellowed ever so quietly, 

Covered in grime-stained rags, a little girl. 

Hush, my dear you need not fret.

I am just a fairy stuck on this icky spiderweb.

A fairy? Oh my do they exist!

Only if you believe my dear, do you believe?

I do! I do! 

But Alice you would not call me.

Nor the rabbit did I see.

Glass slippers never grazed my feet.

Nor pumpkin a carriage it turned out to be. 

A true heart can see magical things.

Cure this cruel world the evil that it brings. 

Magical things you are sure to see.

Because a heart as true as yours,

can turn the world as fresh as the evening breeze.

#np: January's Playlist

Everytime I see Olly Alexander perform it's so cute and funny. Ahh, makes my day. Years and Years is one great band indeed. Gosh, Olly and Neil Milan are the cutest, hoping they're doing okay now. :(

Happy New Year! Omg, I can't believe it's 2016 already! Just kidding, it's actually pretty tangible.


It's a year of many becomings, and of course a new year to new musical discoveries! Lol, okay that was lame. Seriously though, I'm excited about new music, and rediscovering old ones as much as you and all the music junkies out there.


May these, and all, great tracks kick start your 2016 with a bang!

Bang Bang Bang - Big Bang

Just kidding. hehehe jokes aside.

Adventure Of A Lifetime - Coldplay

Headlights - Robin Schulz ft. Ilsey

Ocean Drive - Duke Dumont

Ease - Troye Sivan ft. Broods

Beautiful Escape - Tom Misch ft. Zak Abel

Stay - Kygo ft. Maty Noyes 

Middle - DJ Snake ft. Bipolar Sunshine

Easy Love - Sigala

A grand 2016 everyone! 

With all the love, C.

Wonder - R.J. Palacio (Book Review)

"Shit, this is one good book!" is what I thought to myself all throughout this book. It's so good, so so good. It's indescribable. It's a wonder.

I want to be selfish, to not recommend this book to people who don't appreciate books and the art of it. Because I want people to feel what I've felt, and experience what it has done to me. I've lost count of how many times I cried reading this great piece (it's my first time crying because of a book, mind you.) because it was just so terribly tragic, but strong, full of heart and humor and inspiring all at the same time.

It was so real. The way things are described, the way conversations went, the way things happen and days passed and time flew and I felt like I was there with August every second of it. I had this urge to reach out (or in) to lend Auggie a hand, and maybe somehow make his day a little better.

Okay, point is, it's a great great book and it's one you'd sympathize with. R. J. Palacio did an epic job, so out of the box, so real, so on point with the feelings.

So who's August? Who's Auggie? Who's him?
ps: I'll try to minimize the spoilers, because trust me you'll want to read the book first.

August Pullman, nicknamed Auggie, is a boy who's suffering from a facial anomaly and that makes him an outsider to everyone else. He has never been to an actual school before, but his parents decides to enroll him into one because they think it's the best for him. Of course, without a doubt, being different physically calls for bullying in just about any middle school these days. So this story is about his days in middle school in a span of one school year, and how he adapts to the people there and also how the people there adapt to his existence.


It's so great because it shows how people are, the nature of us as humans. Even the nicest ones.
The way events unfolded so realistically it's hard to believe this is just pure fiction (maybe it's not) because hey, this can happen to any Auggie out there.

Gosh, I can't say more. I'm so bad at explaining things. My mind is tongue-tied.


It's a ten out of ten.


“The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you.” 

“if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. and the universe doesn't. it takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can't see.” 

“the universe takes care of all its birds.” 

“It's what you've done with your time, how you've chosen to spend your days, and whom you've touched this year. That, to me, is the greatest measure of success.” 

“Its not a contest about whose days suck the most. The point is we all have to put up with the bad days.” 

“Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams.” 


Happy reading!
Love, C.