"When I grow up I want to be nothing at all..."

I know you are thinking "wow, this kid has high ambitions!", but hear me out

~To me, this quote is about living without being anything or anyone. Without being labeled or named. To be nothing is not to be worthless. To be nothing means you are still searching for a purpose.

And that gives me hope.

"The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy."

We are quick to create epic stories of any achievement, aggrandizing feats so they seem like future history to be read by our progeny thousands of years from now, but in that, we forget and never tell them of the actual struggle and fight we put into it.

This has rung in my ears since I first heard it as a child, and every year I grow older, it leads me to believe that the journey is just as important as the destination, if not more so, since many roads never meet the end we all search for all our lives.

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly... who know the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have known neither victory nor defeat."

-Theodore Roosevelt

This quote brought me through some hard wandering times, encouraged me to keep on fighting. Also, i may not always do the right thing, but i will always try.

"People look at outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart."- 1 Samuel 16:7

I chose this verse as my "Life Verse" when I was going through confirmation a few years ago. This verse has echoed in my mind ever since then, because it has a note of reassurance wrapped up in accountability.

I have never considered myself perfect. I'm too short, not at all skinny, and I could never be mistaken for a model. But none of this matters at all because what matters the most is what's inside of a person.

You may not be able to control your looks, but you can control your attitude towards life.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

-John Lennon

It gives us all hope that there is more magic beyond what we can see. Never stop creating, believing, imagining. It makes us who we are.

"Do not withhold good from those to whom you should give it If it is within your power to help."—(proverbs:3:27)[NWT Bible]

It reminds me of if you have the power to help to change or any possibility to take the risk to take a leaping chance. Power is a great responsibility and the consequences of those action are at their utmost, So imagine If you did nothing. you could have changed the result, if you realized you had that power to help. It means much i guess to never judge the ability of ones self inner power.

"Be water my friend, be water."

-Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee, was a Martial Arts Demigod.

He said a lot of things that spoke to me, but this rang out to me the most.

I'm the farthest thing from a martial artist but that phrase is universal.

Water can not be created nor destroyed, it can be a solid and a liquid, it can be clean and then be made dirty and then clean again, it can fill an empty space, it can rain from the heavens and be a blessing or a natural disaster.

Water can be whatever the circumstances call for it to be in that moment.

It changes, and as people sometimes we are afraid of change.

But I want to be like water and flow, and fill the space that the circumstances call for me to fill.

I want to be like water.