Change, The Price, and Life

[princess.chell]

So I found this really interesting blog post by Hayley Williams, lead singer of Paramore. Here's the link to it so you can read it yourself if you want http://www.paramore.net/postDetails/2009/06/02/oh-boy/ but to summarize its basically about change, finding yourself, and the price you pay for all of this. It really made me think about myself and my life as I enter the summer before my senior year, a time when I really need to know myself and what I stand for.

So I wanted to pose the same questions she poses to her readers to you guys...
"so what do you value? what cost the most? and was it worth what you paid?"
she also indirectly questions whether we know ourselves and if we are true to ourselves.

I myself don't even know if I have the answers to these questions yet. They are so thought provoking, I can't find an answer to them in the 20 minutes since I first read her post. I didn't post them here to be answered publicly. If you want to share go ahead and share, I'd love to hear peoples thoughts about them. I really posted them to get you to think. Life is short, as my community found out last weekend. In the life that you have, are you being who you want to be? Are you being true to yourself?

I hope I didn't come off preachy or anything, I really just wanted to share Hayley's inspiring thoughts with you guys....

 

[JulielovesDisney]

ITA agree. I went through basically the same things this past year or so. Going from my familiar hometown and high school to a whole new college where I didn't know a single person. I met some people who I thought were friends, but after a while I realized that I couldn't be myself with those people. I eventually found a group of people who I could be my full self with again, and I also made me realize who I was. I took down the facade I put up so people thought I was a certain person, and I saw who I truly was.

I lost my originial friends because I guess they didn't like me leaving (I think they liked trying to control me) but its a price I am definitely willing to pay over and over again.

 

[BabyPiglet]

I agree. I think that I've grown up a lot in the past two years, but I still have a lot to do. Being in college, having the ability to learn anything I want, and ultimately be anybody I want to be, it's really mind blowing right now. I have my whole future right there in front of me.

Do I know who I am? I'm not really sure. I know where I stand on certain issues; I know what I think is right and wrong, but I'm not sure if I really know who I AM. I'm excited and nervous to kind of find that out.