Better than all the Rest

We care for our friends, we care for each other, we care for one another. We all have those friends that are the best of the best, Better than all the Rest! 

When we have a falling out with a friend, our parents always say, friends may come and go, but they don't understand! The friends we have we feel like they will be there forever and some of them might be. Friends are great to have around you laugh with them, you have private jokes and best of all you mess up with them and make stupid mistakes, but that's the fun in it, we make mistakes together and try fix it together, its all apart of being a teen. We have each others backs, well catch each other when  we see your about to fall, well stop you from hitting someone, so we can hurt them ourselves because that's what friends are for. We would do stupid things that we wouldn't think of with someone else like running around the school in a trolley as well as pushing each other down the stairs, in that trolly or jumping out a window just to get a cool picture or even crashing a party then leaving after 5 minutes and many more crazy things! These may sound like silly memories but that's what they might be to somebody else but to us, to us they were one of the best moments of our life. We all have our group of friends but don't close your group off, invite people to come sit with you or for a sleepover because all those people also want friends like you so be open to new ideas and new things because it could turn out to be one of the best memories of your life. " A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues to be a friend, unchangeably" William Penn , we have have those friends that are, the best of the best,    Better than all the Rest!

Who the hell knows

We are all asked who we want to be, what we want to become and what our dreams and goals are, we are asked when we are young, we are asked when we become teens and we are asked for the last time in matric. Well who the hell knows?

When we are young the only thing we think about is coloring your picture as best as you can so you can get a lollipop or to focus on making sure you actually nap during nap time but we never seemed to actually nap. Then we grew up a little and the only thing we focused on was the play date at the end of the day. By the time we got to grade 7 we focused on homework, well we were supposed to focus on homework. Grade 9 we are focusing on the rest of our lives, we are so young and so much pressure is put on us to chose what we want to do for the rest of our lives, speak about a big decision, at this age we don't want to think about the rest of our life, we want to think about that cute boy that you sits behind you math. By matric everyone is so focused on getting into the university of their dreams, and those dreaded exam finals. Parents push their kids to do what they want them to, but you can't, let us follow our dreams, you have made mistakes so let your children make them too, I'm sure you brought them up as lovely people but its now time to let them grow up and live their own dreams. Its harder to learn from someone else's mistakes than it is to learn from your own. Everyone asks you what you want to be when you are older, in grade one we want to be a princess or pirate, grade 7 a pop star or super model, grade 9 a doctor or lawyer and matric, well who the hell knows? 

All we want is Love

We all dream of that perfect guy, the one that makes you feel as though you are invincible.
We all(most of us) want that beautiful white wedding, weather it be on the beach or in a church,
All we want is Love.

Well there comes a time in every teenagers life when you begin to to think about boys and what gets us thinking about that cute boy that sits in the back of the class? T.V and books, we all want that cute boy to come and sit next to you in class or to 'ditch' his friends for you or to arrive at school with a bouquet of red roses and a horse and carriage waiting to for us so they can take us to Wonderland, well I know I want that. And where did I get that idea from... I wonder? We want that cute boy to stop a car from crushing us, to drink poison if they found out we died and to catch a grenade for us, we want that fairy tale moment, we want to find our Edward, we want to find our Romeo and we want to find our Bruno. Even Titanic, he gives her the door, so he can painfully freeze to death, if you reading this think, would you let your; girlfriend, boyfriend or the guy or girl you like give them the door and freeze or would you push them off and save yourself? be honest only you will know. Many teenagers find their Romeo and many don't, but i believe that for every person there is another one to love and to hold. Marriage, for richer and for poorer, it's not ' if poor go for rich' and that's how some people interpret it and that I don't understand. So here's the thing, we watch movies like Twilight or Romeo and Juliet and we see the 'connection' that the two people have and although its just a script we want to believe it, we have to believe it because if there is any chance of us finding that type of cute boy we have to believe that love is real we want to believe its real because,
All we want is Love.

Camp

We all go on camp weather it is to do team building, leadership skills or just to hike, it is part of being a teen.
The memories we make, the moments we share and the friends we make this all boils down to one thing, Camp.


This week i went to camp with my friends, it is indescribable the amount of fun i had, it was a break from reality, it was like anything you want to happen will happen, it is a place where dreams come true.
I made friends with those hilarious counselors, and i was reunited with old friends and also made new ones, the memories we shared and the memories we made just increased our friendship and on top of all that the food was AMAZING!!!!
On the first day we arrived and had an amazing lunch, then we had a gambling night and well what can i say, we won, Tay and i received VIP tickets to party night on the last night. The next day i went surfing with Ash it was loads of fun and we also went skating and attempted to jump ramp but failed. on the third day we did a scavenger hunt that included activities like 'ask an attractive stranger for their number' and 'catch 5 mosquitos'. After lunch they put on a very interesting show for us. On our last day we were all sad to leave but we continued on this freezing day we still surfed and i was blue from head to toe, and once again we went skating. On our very last evening we had party night and let me tell you that was an amazing experience, the music pounding and the people screaming and dancing it was incredible. After party night there was a fire show that was also incredible. All in all it was a phenomenal experience and a wonderful camp.
The excitement we are filled with when we are on our way, our tummies were fluttering our feet were shuffling and our palms were sweating, and when we had to leave our stomaches turned inside out, our palms were clenched together and our eyes began to fill with water, all this leads to one thing an amazing Camp.

Sticks and Stones

The words pierce our ears like a lightening bolt, they strike us at the most inconvenient times.
The looks we get, the laughter we hear and the constant pointing all we can do is tell ourselves that saying we used as a kid Sticks and Stones.

Have you ever asked yourself how do they feel? What are they going through? Are they okay? Do you? Do you really? We sit in the back of the class not saying a word, hoping the teacher doesn't call your name, if they do well thats it! The comments begin to flow in and there is no way we can shut it out, all day as they walk past they comment on the way we walk, the way we talk, the way we dress, even the way we blink it doesn't stop, it never does. We try our best to keep our head high, but the laughing belittles our confidence, the pointing belittles our self-esteem and the mocking belittles our pride. We do not chose to sit in the back of the class, we do not chose to be picked on, we do not chose who we are. Some people take the comments or laughing and shrug it off but others take it to their heart, she feels as if she is not worth it, she feels as if she does not have a purpose, she feels as though she is not needed she feels as if she were born to be punished and every time they say to themselves 'you are beautiful' someone goes to her the next day and calls her ugly. It happens everywhere, its world wide, we all know about it but we chose to ignore it, we chose to let that kid sit in the back of the class alone, we chose to ignore them. Its not difficult to wave your hand and gesture them to take a seat near you, it would make their day.Until we make a difference, until we change it, they sit there trying to believe that it still works, trying to believe a lost truth, trying to convince themselves it will be okay, so just say it Sticks and Stones.

Forever my friend

A friend is a shoulder to cry on, ears to confide in, a mouth for comforting words and eyes to tell you how you look.
Nobody can take the place of a friend, no matter how hard they try, they can push and shove their way in between us but it will never work because you are Forever my Friend.

I have been though a lot, who hasn't? the only way to define it is 'the 8th grade'. Nothing gets you through the day like a best friend. We have made memories that can not be replaced, we have created bonds that can not be broken. A tale that has been told time after time states that friendships have been broken, ridiculous a friendship is unbreakable, if they say it is broken then it is not a friendship. What do you call it? Hate? Enemies? can someone explain? How can have a friendship so strong, so tight, so completely unbreakable and find a way to tear it a part, you would have to rip out any sympathy, any love out your sole to break a friendship so strong. I am lucky my friends have stuck by me, i'm not perfect i have made mistakes, just like any other person in the whole world, they know my mistakes, they know my imperfections and they stick by me and i will stick by them in just the same way. So here is to my friends, we have loved, we have lost, we have fought and we have fixed and through all that, through everything we have still and always have each other you guys are Forever my Friend. 

This Moment in Time

Time knows no boundaries, time has no limit, time does not simply stop! so you can catch up with it.

Every tear you shed over the past, is not worth it, Any tear shed over the future, is lost. The only thing that matters, is now, This Moment in Time.

My friends mean the world to me, and seeing one of them hurt, hurts me. Not all of us know what it is like to be in love, not all of us will know, but when you have that one special person, it feels like love. That makes it even harder to have them break your heart when you have delicately placed it in their hands. The heart will hurt if it is broken but despair does not come from a broken heart, it comes from knowing who broke it, it comes from knowing that even though you have gently placed your heart in their hands they still slide their hands from underneath of it, knowing the consequences. Sometimes the only way to fix a broken heart is to find the person that broke it. I am trying to be there for her, i am trying to show her that its hard but she will move on, her tears were shed about the past, her tears were shed about the future but all i can tell her is " don't cry, the past has no meaning the future has no limits but all that matters, is now, This Moment in Time."