Musings

I have been so busy lately that I haven't had time for myself, what with Honours assignments and my thesis, relaxation is a bit of a dream right now! On that topic, I would like to speak about writer's block. I have been feeling this way for a while: full of ideas but with no idea (hur hur) of how to put them into coherent, beautiful words. It's a terrible situation for anyone out there who writes, from poetry to novels to articles; we just cannot write! But I'll tell you one thing, having someone to support you really helps :D I have the most magnificent partner and he makes it all better....

This leads me to another thing that has been on my mind: Love. It is such a beautiful thing, love. Everybody feels it sometime in their life; it's human nature. There are different kinds of love but I feel that each one has it's own beauty. There is parental, familial love; we all love our parents (most of the time) and our siblings. This is unconditional love, like that of a newborn baby for it's mother. We also have the love we share with our partners. It is deep, this Love; crossing all boundaries and breaking down any walls we may have. This love, for me, is the sweetest love I have ever known. Then, for anyone who has pets, we have the intense love we feel for those furry critters. I myself have ten cats and I love each and every one of them, deeply and without inhibition. Pure love, no matter where it is found and who it is found with, makes anyone glow and become more beautiful!

So, my message for today is this: try to, somehow, find love. It is all around you, all you have to do is look!

I believe in.....

Faeries. Those mystical beings who flit about like butterflies? I believe they are feasible. And a lot more interesting than other celestial beings out there. They are so delicate and beautiful with their gossamer wings that it's hard not to be attracted to the idea of there being faeries out there. I will admit that it is quite "girly" and childish to entertain such fantasies but I also believe that zombies are quite possible.... I am, as one can see, a girl of "many colours". I have a sparkly, girly pink side and a dark, gory horror side that often meld into one glittering undead, kawaii thing.

So do bear with me while I entertain both sides of myself on this blog!!

First Dandelion Wish

So here i am, again, back at this blogging site and attempting to say something that catches someone's eye! I have been thinking about delicate things lately, such as dandelions. They are so simple yet timelessly beautiful and a global symbol of whimsy and delight. I often feel like returning to my childhood and grabbing a handful of the puffy flowers, blowing them to bits ad making as many wishes that pop into my head....

Wishes are a funny phenomenon. A wish can be an average "want" or need, or a splendiferous and fantastic desire (such as living in a magical treehouse in Hogwarts's gardens!). I wish for many things, oft-times they are the latter but I do have achievable goals; finishing Honours, moving into my own little nook and having my dream wedding..... but, as do we all, I have a dream. A pure, white-hot desire to be a published author by the time I am at least 35. It is wishes such as this that make one push on with daily life; the wish we first wished when we discovered the dandelion innocently bobbing about in our garden at 6 years old.

This blog is going to be a mish-mash of odditites but one thing is for sure, I will always include writing, for I believe that writing (be it fiction or non) is one of the purest forms of self expression and art. A writer can paint a picture as vivid as any painter can, can create a song as beautiful as any opera-singer and can let us escape to places beyond the imagination of a movie director. So I urge everyone reading this to pick up a pen, sit at the keyboard or jot down something on your iPad and to write!