from owlssayhooot

A - Age: Twenty-two
B - Bed size: Queen
C - Chore you hate: Chores, cleaning mostly.
D - Don’t eat: Pork.
E - Essential start your day item: More sleep.
F - Favourite board game: Cranium.
G - Gold or Silver: Usually silver. Or White gold.
H - Height: 5’3”
I - Instruments you play(ed): None
J - Job title: I haven't quite figured it out. I should find out.
K - Kid(s): None, not sure I want any.
L - Living arrangements: Live with parents.
M - Mom’s name: Ask her.
N - Nicknames: Lailz
O - Overnight hospital stay other than birth: Never.
P - Pet Peeve: Hypocrisy and when people don't remember things that I feel are quite obvious.
Q - Famous Movie Quote: Good one Goyle.
R - Right or left handed: Right
S - Sibling(s): Older brother.
T - Time you wake up: When I'm forced to.
U - Underwear: I'm all for it.
V - Vegetable favorite: Potatoes.
W - Ways you run late: Always.
X - X-rays you’ve had: Barium Swallow.
Y - Yummy food you make: Kung Pao Chicken
Z - Zoo favorite: Haven't been in a while

I absolutely love all the questions in this list. They are really thought provoking and make you really examine your life and way of thinking. So I'm going to attempt answering them, well, some of them!

1. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?

It would depend. Am I living in a society where no one knows their age, or am I the exception? If age was something my society couldn't care about, then I wouldn't care either. However, if I lived in modern day, North American society as I do now, I would think back to my earliest memory, assume it to be at about 5 years of age and try and guesstimate how many years have passed since.

But thats besides the point and it doesn't even answer the question. This is a difficult question because our brains are wired to think in years. I turn 22 tomorrow. I sure don't feel like I'm 22. I feel like I've been on Earth no more than 12-15 years.

As I answer more questions. This range will become more apparent.

Ponder

Because sometimes asking the right questions is the answer.

1. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
2. Which is worse, failing or never trying?
3. If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
4. When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you’ve done?
5. What is the one thing you’d most like to change about the world?
6. If happiness was the national currency, what kind of work would make you rich?
7. Are you doing what you believe in, or are you settling for what you are doing?
8. If the average human life span was 40 years, how would you live your life differently?
9. To what degree have you actually controlled the course your life has taken?
10. Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?
11. You’re having lunch with three people you respect and admire. They all start criticizing a close friend of yours, not knowing she is your friend. The criticism is distasteful and unjustified. What do you do?
12. If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be?
13. Would you break the law to save a loved one?
14. Have you ever seen insanity where you later saw creativity?
15. What’s something you know you do differently than most people?
16. How come the things that make you happy don’t make everyone happy?
17. What one thing have you not done that you really want to do? What’s holding you back?
18. Are you holding onto something you need to let go of?
19. If you had to move to a state or country besides the one you currently live in, where would you move and why?
20. Do you push the elevator button more than once? Do you really believe it makes the elevator faster?
21. Would you rather be a worried genius or a joyful simpleton?
22. Why are you, you?
23. Have you been the kind of friend you want as a friend?
24. Which is worse, when a good friend moves away, or losing touch with a good friend who lives right near you?
25. What are you most grateful for?
26. Would you rather lose all of your old memories, or never be able to make new ones?
27. Is is possible to know the truth without challenging it first?
28. Has your greatest fear ever come true?
29. Do you remember that time 5 years ago when you were extremely upset? Does it really matter now?
30. What is your happiest childhood memory? What makes it so special?
31. At what time in your recent past have you felt most passionate and alive?
32. If not now, then when?
33. If you haven’t achieved it yet, what do you have to lose?
34. Have you ever been with someone, said nothing, and walked away feeling like you just had the best conversation ever?
35. Why do religions that support love cause so many wars?
36. Is it possible to know, without a doubt, what is good and what is evil?
37. If you just won a million dollars, would you quit your job?
38. Would you rather have less work to do, or more work you actually enjoy doing?
39. Do you feel like you’ve lived this day a hundred times before?
40. When was the last time you marched into the dark with only the soft glow of an idea you strongly believed in?
41. If you knew that everyone you know was going to die tomorrow, who would you visit today?
42. Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by 10 years to become extremely attractive or famous?
43. What is the difference between being alive and truly living?
44. When is it time to stop calculating risk and rewards, and just go ahead and do what you know is right?
45. If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?
46. What would you do differently if you knew nobody would judge you?
47. When was the last time you noticed the sound of your own breathing?
48. What do you love? Have any of your recent actions openly expressed this love?
49. In 5 years from now, will you remember what you did yesterday? What about the day before that? Or the day before that?
50. Decisions are being made right now. The question is: Are you making them for yourself, or are you letting others make them for you?

From owlssayhoot

Inadequacies

Girls like to complain. A lot. We moan about our thighs, hair, nose, eyelashes, pinkies. I could go on forever, and that's just the physical stuff. We complain about our boyfriends - current, ex and that we can't get any. Our parents, good God, do we complain about our parents. Our siblings, grandparents - relatives of all shapes and sizes. Friends. Neighbours. Countrymen.

I get it. We complain about everything.

What really irks me is when people who complain about things that are going well for them! Gosh, I'm so thin I need to gain weight. I wish guys would stop hitting on me. People need to stop texting me, I have to keep deleting them, my phone can only hold 1000.

The irony just struck me. I'm complaining about complaining. Brilliant.

I've been reading a lot more blogs than usual because of BEDA, and one of them is Hayley's.
Hayley also happens to be first video I watched at the start of the fiveawesomegirls vlogging project, since that was the one Hank posted on the Ning. [Holy hyperlink Batman] I instantly fell in love with her. She was funny, quirky, adorable. Lets face it, we like watching attractive people. Cosmetic surgery isn't a multi-billion dollar industry because of all the good it does.

In reading Hayley's blog, I've noticed she's often down on her self. And I've yet to figure out why. What baffles me further is that her family sometimes pulls her down just a little more. I'd kill to be Hayley. Be able to sing, have her wit, her looks, her smarts, heck, I'd even take the multitude of friends she has. Or possibly everyone's life looks brighter in comparison to my dismal one. Notwithstanding, Hayley's is still really good. But I digress, she's down on her looks not the other stuff. I could break down all the things that make her so very pretty but I'm afraid I'll come off as absurdly creepy (more so than I have so far!) and my girl crush might be misconstrued for a romantic one!

While she is perfectly entitled to complain about whatever she wants to complain about, she need not. But I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles. You hate what you hate, and even though you really don't want to to, you hate it anyway.

Don't know how many more I'll write before the months out. Not that it matters. Not that anyone reads these!

BIDA (the illegitimate child of BEDA)

BEDA a.k.a Blog Every Day April is the brainchild of Maureen Johnson, author extraordinaire. I however, am not much of a writer, I actually don't enjoy writing. I sometimes whine in written words instead of just whining in my head. which is how this blog came to be.

Since I don't quite enjoy writing, am not very good at it and don't care to share all the little thoughts in my head, blogging every day in April isn't really my thing. What is my thing is jumping on bandwagons. I adore bandwagons. My knowledge of any sport is grossly limited, but put me in a room with a bunch of sports fans, I will root, whoop and cheer my heart out just to get in on the fanfare. And so, BIDA was born. BIDA is Blog Infrequently During April. Considering my last post was sometime mid-September, blogging infrequently would really be a positive step.

So here's to a few more blogs and whining on the Internet!

Crazies

I was reading up on the HPV vaccine since its there have been tons of ads on TV and I wanted to know a bit more about it. While doing that I learned that many states have been denying bills that make the vaccine mandatory for girls in middle school and parents have the option of opting out because of religious or medical reasons.

The apparent religious reason is that it'll make girls more promiscuous and send the message that its okay to have sex. WHAT?! Seriously? Its a prevantative vaccination, are you saying you're raising a child that would get that idea from a shot? If so, I'm judging your parenting skills. It's like saying, no I'm not going to give my child a tetnus shot becuase then they'll think its okay to go stab themselves with a rusty nail.

Hopeless Romantics Remain Just So

Since I have this unhealthy obsession with my name and romance, I wikipedia'd the story of Laila Majnu (Layla in wikiworld) and even though I knew it ended in a very tragic way I was still a little distraught after reading about it. Though I tink things work out okay for Laila, she gets married to some other bloke and lives an unintersting, apathetic exsistence.

I then found this. And now I'm just depressed. Not a single one of those stories ends happily. They're all morbid and heart-wrenching.

"If talking about Valentines, it is imperative to know about few people who have made this day special by celebrating love in their lives"

Celebrate the fact that falling in love led to each and everyone dying a premature death? Not a single one made it to their wedding night.

I love love. It gives me butterflies when I hear another's story of how they met and fell in love with their significant other. Especially the fake, silver screen kind. So obviously I can't wait for the real deal. But if I'm as lucky as these famous couples, he'll end up going crazy and writing a poem about me before jumping off a tower after drinking poision on our wedding day!
A love story for the ages indeed!