"You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!"

Dr. Seuss. I love this man. Um for someone who wrote children's stories (He is the reason I fell in love with poetry.) Anyways, back to the post.
I am a fan of tis book because... well it's a book about your future. Or what you'll make of it; maybe you'll sit at home with your parents for the rest of your life, maybe you'll get married and start a family. But, "Oh the places you'll go!" To quote the famous man, whatever you choose to do, I mean, "You're off to great places!" (I simply love this poem.)
Okay, so heres a tiny bit about me. I believe in what I like to call, the "Peter Pan Method." Living everyday like you're young, still wanting to fly away to spend the day with Peter. Even though we must grow up sometime, today certainly isn't that day. I plan on getting a tattoo behind my.. right ear, its a picture of the second star to the left and straight on till morning, as a reminder to me, to never get to old to have fun with the people I love the most. To play with my family, to laugh with my friends, to love with that childlike love, the unconditional love that will look at someone like they can do no wrong.
Now sadly, all those things that I aspire to do, don't always come true. I falter. I forget to have fun with my family, sometimes I don't always laugh with my friends. I certainly don't love all the time, I am human. Everything that I want, I need to work for; working for it, drives me to be a better person then I am.

"Congratulations!
Today is your day,
You're off to great places!
You're off and away!"

A lovely beginning stanza from the wonderful poet, this book, it's like a send off to the world. I am almost all grown up, almost eighteen years old. I don't want to grow up, if I could, sometimes I think that I want to still be twelve years old, waiting for Peter Pan to come and take me away. Waiting for my childhood to take place. I know though, that I will still be young, forever young, but now it's time to face the music and grow up a little.

"You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
In any direction you choose!
You're on your own. And you know what you know!
And YOU are the the guy who'll decide where to go."

When you grow up, you learn things, you learn everything fact. Everything that your parents have taught you. Everything that you have learned on your own. Everything that others have taught you. You have feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself. You grow up, then you move on, to face the big bad world on your own.


You, can control your future, because it's YOURS. No one can take it away.

"You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... Get on your way!

"We all have to grow up sometimes, we might as well know what we want." -Amy March. -Little Women.

-Birdy

"We love the things we love for what they are."

Robert Frost. Beautiful line. I like poetry, however Robert Frost is not my favorite poet, I prefer the darker side of poetry such as Edgar Allen Poe, I think I just relate better to it, yes, that sounds silly, that I like darker poets, but I think they're more intriguing then a poet who writes about a tree blowing in the wind. When I write poems, they're generally about something I've gone through, I like to have a story about myself rather then just reading a puff piece about a flower petal. I like Emily Dickinson, but only some of her things. I want, when a reader reads one of my poems I want them to get a small glimpse into my life, not just my love of nature. (I like it, in concentrated doses, or when I'm with my friends, alone however, I do not like nature.)
Anyways, yes, I used a quote with love in it... AGAIN. (why you might ask? I wouldn't know.) I think love, because it's so foreign to me, is what makes it so interesting, so special so and unattainable. Because that what love is to me, love is unattainable. I push it away, so I'm not complaining about it. Love has this thing about it see, that when you do find something you love, it doesn't matter how flawed it is. You could love the most disgusting shirt in the world, but you still love it for whatever reason, it could've belonged to someone that you cherished of found to be special, or a wrapper from something that you had fun at, silly things, but I mean, you love what you love.
The heart wants what the heart wants. Or else it does not care at all. (I'm pretty sure that Emily Dickinson said that.) I mean though, it's true, its incredibly true. As much as I'm going to tell myself that I don't want to fall for anyone, my heart decides, my brain kinda just follows along with the rest of my body. I simply don't have a choice. I think that's one of the fun parts of being young, you can make mistakes, but still the rest of your body doesn't really understand what you've just done to yourself, all it realize's is that you'r happy and you seem to stay happy for a long enough time.
Love is a disease that poisons the mind and all reasoning along with it. (I said that by the way.) I mean it really is, then Paulo Coelho said "Love is a disease that no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured." which I think is sooo true, (yes I just had one of those strange girl moments.) Love really is a disease, and it's that strange one that EVERYONE wants. Then there a couple who are like, 'well, no. I think being clear and happy is such a nice curse and a burden that I'll go with alone.' because when you're in love, you don't think clearly, I mean how many people don't look back on early years and think, 'wow, I am dumb, why did I like them? I don't know...? I am so much smarter now.' Everyone thinks like that, so if you're that weird person that DOESN'T think like that, then please, tell us your secret, because I would like to know the magic for happy living.
You can ask anyone who's actually in love that this question. "Would you change a thing?" Most of the time, they would look at their significant other, or think of them and say with a happy silly tone, "No, of course not." That's what everyone says, it's not just what I would say, (which I will never.) or friends of mine, I mean it's just the generic answer to that AGE OLD QUESTION...
anyways, we love the things we love for what they are. You love what you love, simple as that. I don't love it for something it's not, I won't love someone for something that they aren't. I want to look at someone, and know why I fell for them, normally when I do see someone, and I fall for them, I need to figure out the reason I fell for them. I don't just want to aimlessly fall for someone, I want to like them for them. I want to notice someone, but I don't just want to like someone to like them. I want to like them, because I see something/someone worth actually liking.

-Birdy

"We love the things we love for what they are."