Disney Princesses
So, lately I have been seeing posting bashing on the Disney Princesses. The latest one was that beauty and the beast teaches you that in love, looks don’t matter as long as your a billionaire prince who owns a castle.
I guess people don’t remember. Belle hated the beast at first. What the movie was teaching you is that with time and courage love can bloom even in the darkest garden, if you are patient, willing and courageous. I guess with the way society is we’ve all forgotten about it. We all started looking for the easy way out, the garden that is full of light. The garden that is easy to plant, the “fertilizer” that will make the garden grow quicker.
The point is, you can’t hurry love. Looks don’t matter and neither should material possessions.
love&hugs
KendraJuliet
Phoebe Prince article
So, I know I’m a bit behind on my rage posting about this. I have known about this for a while, I just want to vent what I’m thinking.
So, yesterday in class we discussed cyber-bullying. It not only brought up memories of how I was bullied in elementary school, but also of how yesterday was the 1 year anniversary of a friends death. We then broke up into groups and read an article from a magazine about the Phoebe Prince case. Our next assignment was to write a paragraph about what we found interesting about the article(this is where the ranting starts!).
My friend asked me what I thought was interesting, I told her that I don’t like this article, I don’t like the reason it was written, I don’t like the fact that people feel the need to be complete bitches to others just because of jealousy, low self-esteem or whatever. It made me even madder to realise that, she was already depressed and on medications. It made me mad that not only did that happen, but she bullied to the point of suicide in another country. For all I know she may have come to the U.S. because she was going through the same problems, I don’t know. I just don’t understand why people really feel the need to do what they do.
Phoebe was a beautiful girl, so was Brittney. So were all other suicide victims(well they weren’t all beautiful girls, but they were beautiful people.)
So, whoever reads this, Thank you for reading it. It’s a bit more calm than it would have been if I would have written this yesterday, but thankfully I waited until I calmed down abit.
May you never be fearful, for you are loved and all love is greater than any hate.
Love&Hugs
KendraJuliet
Thought of the Day
So around this time last year my church youth group had a required reading book. I never finished it, but I learned the lessons each week. Yesterday had been Christmas, and I was thinking(I think way too much) “Wow, I have a lot of nice things. I mean I’m not living in the lap of luxury, but I have a house, a bed, blankets, pillows, food, clothes, medicine if I get sick, and my family. I have alot.” Then I decided that no matter how bad things got that, I want to live. Then I woke up this morning and had this revelation.
The revelation was that instead of following my dreams of going to college and trying to get rich, I want to follow that dream, and help in Africa. I want them to have food, and beds, and blankets and water. I want them to be as fortunate as I am, and I want them to have hope, and to show them that someone, somewhere cares.
I don’t know how I’m going to achieve this goal, but I want to get famous. Not for being rich or beautiful or smart. I want to get famous enough to the point where it would help the cause, not drive me mad and make me power crazy. People need hope, and I want to give it to them.
♥&hugs Kendra/Juliet
Four months ago, a 14 year-old named Jonah Mowry made a video. He wrote on index cards and held them in front of the camera, one after another, owning his words bravely for the world to see. The world is seeing it. The video is seemingly everywhere this week, and we think it’s great. We are proud to share it with you.
Jonah is in eighth grade and no stranger to being bullied at school. He shares his journey through school, how bullying started in first grade and never stopped. There at the end, he acknowledges that things can’t keep going the way they’ve been going, but his recognition doesn’t imply defeat, rather it fuels his fight for his own story. He is stronger than giving up. He is worth more than giving up. He has a million reasons to live. In the dark, tangled up in his fears, Jonah seizes his own strength.
It is a hard road to find and hold on to the truths Jonah finds and holds in his video, and some of us don’t know how to get to the strength locked within ourselves. And it is in this place that I’m reminded that we need each other, that hope and goodness and truth and love, definitely love, can change a life.
People need you.
You need people.
What would the world look like if we lived like we believe in that? What would the world look like if we helped each other find the strength locked up within us? If, instead of tearing each other down with hate, we built each up with truth and love?
What would happen if we simply used our words for kindness?
Your words have power, and the way you shape them matters. Use them carefully, and use them often.
Wishing you hope and grace.
whitney
This kid inspires me, I hope he learns to no longer fear what surrounds him now, but to love and embrace the good things, the reasons are there and the hope is too. Hopefully
Via To Write Love on Her Arms: Behind The Scenes
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I love that the twloha intern chose Famous Last Words for their song of the week or w/e(don’t actually remember at the moment, because I’m so excited!) MCR saved me, and I’m glad they chose that song
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