"You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot."
-Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green 

"You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk to them and five minutes later they’re as dull as a brick? Then there’s other people, when you meet them you think, 'Not bad. They’re okay.' And then you get to know them and… and their face just sort of becomes them. Like their personality’s written all over it. And they just turn into something so beautiful."

- Amy Pond, Doctor Who: "The Girl Who Waited"

Just so You know,

Sometimes I think to myself, "This is it! This is the year!" & then I have this sudden tornado of thoughts of what my life could look like this year, what I could do...and then I usually find myself recognizing my delusion and settling for mediocracy the way "realistic" people often do...

There's something you should know though: I've never been realistic.

Also, I dream of writing a book someday. & visiting Paris.

Always,
L.A.
(your silly dreamer)

"I think we all speak a different kind of language than each other, but you sound a whole lot like coffee on a Sunday morning and the rain is falling bitter against the windowpane and your elbows are making holes in the countertops, and I only want to tell you that I wish I was as close as the threads of your t-shirt, and if I can't be that, then I'll be content with drinking my drink beside you, with the rain sloppy open mouth kissing the roof, trying to dismantle the etymology of a conversation that falls out of the realm of words."
- Shinji Moon, He Loves the Rain

via THE WILD AND WILY WAYS OF A BRUNETTE BOMBSHELL

Embracing the adventure

I am eager for an adventure. For life's adventure. I want to read as much as I can read, learn as much as I can learn, see as much of the world as I can see, and love as much as I can love. I am so ready for this life that God's blessed me with. To live it fully.

I feel so much more at peace now that I've resigned myself to the fact that I will never have complete control of my life. Things don't happen according to the plans I've had tucked away in my head since I was twelve. & I might just finally be okay with that.

Always,
L.A.

“To fall in love with God is the greatest of romances. To seek Him, the greatest adventure. To find Him, the greatest human achievement.”
- St. Augustine

A resolution

Sometime over the last four months I've somehow reverted back into this sob story of a nineteen year old college student, single and wallowing in how pathetic I am for it. Weeping like an infant about how love had managed to miss me this time around, and well frankly, every time around. And yeah the guy I like(d) he was a DANG GOOD GUY. One in a million to be sure, but, at least for now, it wasn't meant to be. God has something else in mind for me for the time being.

Here I am doing something I rarely do: Admitting I was wrong. The me in that last post, ooftah, she needed a wake up call. Turns out she got one.

So here I am, just as 2013 has started off, making a resolution for myself. Instead of moping around like I've been given three months to live because my life isn't going as I quite planned, I'm going to rejoice. Rejoice in the Lord! Praise him for this life and voice he's given me and pray for the courage to live the moment He's given me right now to the absolute fullest for His glory.

Always & forever His,
L.A.

PS: Fun fact: I'm at the Swan & Dolphin Resort right now in Disney World for the 2013 SEEK Conference! It's shaping up to be exactly what I needed. :)