Oh How Great the Gatsby Is

It is late, in fact it is quite a number of hours past my bed time. However, I am inspired to write and so write I will.

I just finished a lengthy paper on why fat taxes are no good and all it did was make me want to eat hamburgers and fries, almost in defiance of the idea of taxes on delicious foods. I could preach to you more about why fat taxes are a total infringement on our rights and I could even tell you many other reasons fat taxes should be flushed down the toilet but the real reason I wanted to get on blogger and write is because I have been inspired.

Yes, I believe inspired is probably the best word.

Here is the thing, The Great Gatsby is amazing. I read it and I loved it, and about two hours (or more) ago  I finished the movie and while it was not even half as good as the book because of the books great detail, I quite enjoyed it too. Just like I could tell you more about fat taxes I could also expound on the amazing symbolism that Fitzgerald uses in The Great Gatsby, but that is also another topic that I am not willing to squander on.

No, I have not been inspired by The Great Gatsby really more about the idea that goes along with it.

Again, here is the thing, my English teacher is, among other things, inspiring. Every book we have read in English this year with the small exception of Huckleberry Finn I have been completely drawn into. I have literally immersed myself with finding hidden meanings and reading words that I have now learned were chosen with a specific purpose in mind. I am completely boggled by the idea that an author can sit and think about almost every word that they put into their writing because they know that they must pick just the right word or the interpretations of the story will be completely thrown.

I could sit here for days and list examples and explain examples of this phenomenon, and I could do it with examples from just one book. But more importantly I want to challenge people to read more and find more meaning and suck the richness from books. I want to yell to the world, "WHY AREN'T YOU ALL READING RIGHT NOW BECAUSE IT IS SO WORTH IT!!!!"

I want others to be inspired as I have.

I could say more, but as you have seen, there are a lot of things I could say that I have chosen not to.

Ponder those.

Love.

Ponder Yourself

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with his success unexpected in common hours."-Henry David Thoreau

I wish that this was me, I want to hold this many huge balloons at once, maybe even more... so I could fly away.

Lately all I have wanted to be is a Princess who lived in the fairytale world of dragons and princes and high towers, I wouldn't even mind being locked in a high tower for a while with a wicked witch climbing up my long gorgeous hair everyday if I eventually had a prince come and save me, as long as I had the long gorgeous hair and I eventually got the price charming of my dreams. It is time for fairytales to be real. I am ready.

 Do you ever feel like you are sitting in a chair a lot like this one and staring at a wall slightly like this? Do you feel like you are constantly searching for something more and you just can't seem to see anything but white? And you just can't seem to find anything of real importance in the wall before you but you are still inspired by the way it looks. I am not sure if I know what I am trying to get at here, but I like this picture.

 "Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up." 
- Bible: Ecclesiastes

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him, his own."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
-Goethe

"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship."
- Cicero

Sometimes I think about doing my homework, which is a step in the right direction, then I start to reason with myself and think of all the possibilities I have of maybe getting out of doing it. Then I think of what I want to do with my life, and how failing high school is not a good way to start my future with brightness... then I do my homework. And life stays nice. 

I let it fall, my heart,
And as it fell you rose to claim it
It was dark and I was over
Until you kissed my lips and you saved me
My hands, they're strong
But my knees were far too weak
To stand in your arms
Without falling to your feet
But there's a side to you
That I never knew, never knew.
All the things you'd say
They were never true, never true,
And the games you play
You would always win, always win.
But I set fire to the rain,
Watched it pour as I touched your face,
Well, it burned while I cried
'Cause I heard it screaming out your name, your name!
When I lay with you
I could stay there
Close my eyes
Feel you here forever
You and me together
Nothing gets better


Belting Adele like nothing else matters in life but the sound of your voice usually helps you feel a lot better about things. Singing so loud you feel like you are going to go deaf from your own sound waves is the best way to do it as well. There aren't very many artists that you can listen to their songs and feel like belting their songs is the best thing to do. I always feel like this with Adele, I sang through bother her albums twice today while doing homework and it was great.