monday inspiration: failure

"When we were young we never cared and now we're scared of jumping in, like we've forgotten how to swim but if we try and if we tread then we can teach ourselves again 'cause it's worth the chance we take. But I think that we should try and we should tread 'cause if we never take another dip again we'll never know the joy that failure brings." - Thankfully by Bayside 

(speaking of thanks and such, I thought this was the coolest thing ever: Thankfulness: an unexpected group activity)

anne koch

my goal this week is to teach myself to fail. yep, fail. why? because I'm so afraid of falling that I won't jump. literally, actually.

I just love Julia Trotti 

 (I think it's kind of funny that I post random, supposedly inspirational writing and pictures that really have nothing to do with it in between. whatever. these are the things that inspire me.)

julia trotti

see, in my dance classes, one of the reasons I'm so slow with getting the routines and such (I think) is because I'm not good at just going for it. last thursday they taught me how to do a tuck jump. which should be easy. but I'm so afraid of falling or embarrassing myself that I won't really go for it and fail anyway.

anastasia chomlack

exhibit b: me and mom had a big talk last week about my academic goals. I'm really not getting enough done this year. sure, I only have one class left and that's going fine but since there was so much space to fill we had set some goals at the beginning of the semester that, well, aren't exactly going as planned. why? because I had given up on school. my dream college (kenyon!) seems out of reach for many reasons and I have no idea what I'd want to major in (though I actually sort of know what I want to do) so the new plan was community college for my general college classes or cosmetology school. I guess school just didn't seem important to me anymore. but I was still afraid that if I started at community college then I wouldn't go back and get my four year degree. 

oprisco

 but mom really encouraged me because she knows me better than almost everyone and she knows I wouldn't really be happy settling like that. so we have a new plan and I'm back on track as far as my college applications go (I wasn't going to apply anywhere) and I'm feeling more motivated. I think I'm even going to apply to Kenyon and if I don't get in, I don't get in. at least I won't look back and wonder what would have happened.

pauline darley

exhibit c: Instead I Fight played their first show at a birthday party last night. there was lots of dancing. I don't dance. I wish I had. even if I am a terrible dancer, it probably would have been more fun than just standing around.

endoo

 there's a lot more, I'm sure but I'm going to stop beating up on myself now.

cutest. thing. ever. I actually laughed out loud. (gala darling)

the point is, if we don't try, maybe we don't fail but if we don't try we miss out on experiences. and we miss out on life. or that's just my theory. and personally, I don't want to miss a thing.

. . .

*bursts into song*

m0thyyku

speaking of songs, you should click the picture and download this remix. because it's amazing.

I heart Switchfoot. and Mutemath. and Jeremy Larson.

so wish me luck in my failure experiment.

I kind of love the ballerina project



and my tap class performance-ish thingy (we're supposed to pick a song and make up five eight counts. and show the class this week. yes there are only five other people in my class-including the teachers-and yes, I am still nervous.)

the ballerina project

this is really beautiful (why i want children young)

i wanna be a part of something this epic on day. (one day, i will.) the rock and roll bride (photography by david mcneil, behind the scenes)

I would love to experiment with some film soon.
reason number 1:






this is amazing. (sorry guys, clean until 2:45 -and after!- but completely worth listening to)





(and this is really sweet)