Traveling the World

I always thought that it'd be fun to travel the world someday. You'd be seeing all these new places that are crazy beautiful. You'd meet so many new people, and see so many new things. Being in the same place all the time makes you really bored, so going a bunch of places that are so different then what you're used to would be so much fun. I would want to see amazing sights, and meet amazing people. I know that it'd be hard to leave my friends and family for a while because it'd definitely take a while to go everywhere that I wanted to go around the world. But, atleast it would be a once in a lifetime opportunity. By the time that you come back, you'd be a whole new person because you saw all these other people with these new lifestyles and you'd want to change yours. It'd be amazing.

I Am Only Me

I am only me, that is all that I can be
No more, no less, don’t second guess
I love, I laugh, I live and cry,
I’ve wished at times, that I could die
Some days I’m funny, others I’m not,
sometimes I’m in overdrive and can’t stop
I am a loyal and honest friend,
You know that I’ll be there until the end
I am a father/mother, my children my greatest gift,
The smiles on their faces always give me a lift
I am a romantic, sensual, and passionate too,
to the love of my life, I’ll share this with you
I can be sweet and shy or sassy and bold,
I’m quite a handful, or so I’ve been told
I am not perfect, I do have my faults,
like when I get scared I put up high walls
Or I’m not as forgiving, as I’d sometimes like to be,
because when I hurt, I hurt deeply
My logic is all my own, at times misunderstood,
because I don’t always do things for my own goodI have many facets, like a diamond you see…
I am only me.


By Ruth Bourdon

Childhood

When I was little I used to write so many stories, they were always about adventures and big families. That's probably because when I was little I always was so curious about the world, I always wanted to go on adventures. I also always wanted a huge family, a bunch of brothers and sisters to spend my days with, fight with and love. I grew up mostly, with my single mom. I saw my dad sometimes but he was always working. My parents were never together, from the time I was born all I knew was them being separated. So, it wasn't like I ever knew them being together or anything. By the time I was like 10 I always said I wanted to have like 12 kids, because I loved little kids. I'd write stories about huge families with 6-12 kids and I'd make one of them kind of like me so I could write how it would be like if that was my family. As I got older though, I accepted that I was probably always going to be an only child. I was okay with that because there's a lot of upsides to being an only child also.

Redemption

Have you ever made a huge mistake that may have costed you your friendship with someone? It feels bad to make a mistake and know that you're the one that caused a fight. Definitely, when you're used to being able to at least partly put the blame on someone else.

I've made a mistake like that, I've lied to get out of a bad situation. There's those days that you feel like the whole world is against you. You understand why people hate you because you hate yourself just as much, maybe even more.

But, you have to understand that everyone makes mistakes. No one is perfect, even if they think they are. If the person you betrayed can't forgive you, you need to forgive yourself. There's not one person in this world who has never done something wrong, broke a promise sometime in their lifetime, and said the wrong thing at the wrong time.

What's important is you don't keep making the mistake, you learn from your mistakes and take life as it comes, you forget about the people who bring you down and let it go. You can't blame someone else for your bad day, because you have the choice to look past what someone did and still have a good time. Let's all face it, sometimes we just want to get even with someone that did something to you, but that's not really helping anything it's just causing more problems. So, forgive but never forget.