The Yellow Wood

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost

As the trees shed there leaves this fall, I too must shed mine. The strong trunk, the branches and the roots remain, but the leaves must go. 

Some people are like leaves on a tree. When autumn comes they show their true colors, before falling from the top and the friendship decays. They become nothing but a mere memory. And when the time comes when you need them the most, when the splintering cold and darkness of winter rolls in they are nowhere to be seen. 

What you are left with is the strong trunk, and the roots. The people that matter. This is your support system, this is what sustains you. These are the people who will never, ever leave you. True friends.

Autumn has always been a big time of transition for me, and this year more than ever. A fresh start is needed and a fresh start will be had with the help of college life. This summer I found out what really matters, and who really, really matters to me. I wouldn't let them go for the world. 

This autumn before college and school starts again take a step back and assess everything. Look at the people in your life and figure out who are the leaves and who are the branches. I'm not saying you should drop the people you may see as leaves, but just be weary. If you feel unhappy with your life use September as a fresh start. Let this new school year be a launching bad for the life you want.

Fuck New Year's. September is the time for change.

That's All For Now My Darlings!

MWAH!

-SecretKeepIt 

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The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth

The truth, laid as it is, untainted by lies and corruption is still subject to debate. The way I see it the truth is like a piece of abstract art, or a poem, it is all a matter od perspective. The truth is a game of perspective.

You can show somebody the truth but there is no guarantee that they will see it for what it is. I read somewhere that people are willing to believe anything; if they want it to be true, or if they fear it is true. The truth is much like this. People will look at it, listen to it and proclaim that it isn’t the truth because they don’t want to believe it, or can’t see it.

Hearing the truth about your own flaws is much like this. When you confront someone and tell them what you think, as rational and logical as your argument may be they may not see your point at all. When certain events unfold people take from them what they will. They will see it as they want to. 

This is why I see the truth to be like an abstract piece of art. A painting is a painting no matter who it is viewed by. The colors, the subject matter, the methods used in the painting are all the same. But when people see it they tie in their own thoughts, opinions and experiences into it. What I might see to be the true meaning of a painting may be totally different to what you see. Much like a poem, the same words, rhyming schemes and techniques that were used in the production of the poem are the same no matter who is reading it. But despite the words being the same, people take them to mean a million different things.

The truth is impossible to find when people still lie to themselves.

That’s All For Now My Darlings! ;)

MWAH!

-SecretKeepIt

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Read The Book

She’s blonde, she’s an airhead. 

She has huge boobs she’s definitely easy.

Of course he’s smart, look he’s wearing glasses.

He’s a dick. No there is no particular reason, but he’s a guy so he must be. 

Stereotypes. 

My darlings, how often do we hear these things in our world today, or worse again how often do we think them? We make so many presumptions about people upon first glance that we have no evidence to back them up. 

Girls say that all guys are dicks, well usually they say “All guys are dicks, but you’re an exception.” Flattering and all it may be I don’t like it when people just generalize a whole gender like that. Sure there are a lot of dicks out there, but there are lots of nice guys too. The problem is, generally we are just attracted to the dicks. We like to think we could be the one to change them. Or maybe we just want something that is hard for us to have. I’m not sure. But while all these assholes get chased by plenty of girls there are so many nice guys just waiting in the sidelines for the right person to come along. But unfortunately nice guys are usually friend-zoned because they’re nice, and that makes them great friends.

Guys look at girls who go out dressing, well dressing … well looking as though they are half dressed like pieces of meat. They think that just because they are dressed how they are that they’re up to fuck. This shouldn’t happen. People should be able to dress how they like without expectations being made of them. Look at the television, look at the music videos, look in magazines. This is the fashion that is expected of girls in this day and age. Just because a girl likes to show a little skin, or a lot of skin it doesn’t mean she wants to have sex. And it does not give anyone the right to take away that power from her. 

You need to look at a person as a whole. You can’t know everything about someone by the clothes they wear, or the way they wear there hair, or by the kind of body they have. You can’t really make a judgement on a person on the cover, on what’s on the surface, you have to read the whole book before you can make a fair judgement.


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That’s All For Now My Darlings!

MWAH!

-SecretKeepIt

Strut That Shit

Confidence.

The smirk, the look, the walk it’s all part of what makes a person radiate confidence but what is it that brings them there?

The cool charisma, the big personality, the ability to be oneself it all comes in hand with this brilliant trait. But it so is hard to obtain. How do we move past those voices in our head telling us not to stand out; that we’ll make a fool of ourselves. How do we stop caring what others think, ignore those judgmental looks? 

During the junior cycle of my school life I was the field mouse, the shadow, the quiet one. Yes I answered in class, raised my hand, knew all the answers but that didn’t exactly make me confident not socially. In groups I was the quiet one, who laughed along with the others but never really made the jokes. Never brought myself to the center stage.

Then something happened, a chance to start again, almost completely afresh. I got to leave the year I was in and move ahead, as I didn’t do TY. So over the summer something changed. I decided I was done being the quiet one. And magically I was confident.

No not really. I faked it. I put on this brave face. I adopted the “fake it till you make it” act. The butterflies were still there, the sudden scarlet face was always threatening to appear but I learned to act like they didn’t exist. I played the role of this brand new confident person who made people laugh, sometimes at me, but mostly with me. And eventually it stopped being an act, it was just who I was.

So my advice is, if you need that boost of confidence, just fake it till you make it. I learned the only way to earn respect almost instantly is to walk into any room as though you own it. Strut that shit, even if you think you look awful. But most importantly just let the part of you that struggles to get out past the insecurities shine, even if it is just for show.

But remember there is a fine line between confidence and arrogance so tread carefully my darlings.

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That’s all for now my darlings ;)

MWAH!

Your ever so confident -SecretKeepIt