Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Weekly Journal (Emotion Lists)

What makes you happy?
1. Loving someone.
2. Blank paper and a ready pen.
3. A flood of cold, nighttime air creeping through my bedroom window.
4. The crunch of snow under my boots.
5. Clean sheets.
6. My family. Whether were sitting around talking or watching a movie together.
7. Writing. Period.
8. Buying a brand new book.
9. Going to Barnes and Noble and staring at the shelves
10. Analyzing Broadway actresses’ performances.
11. Drawing nonstop until my fingers are stained with every color imaginable.
12. Baking something warm and yummy.
13. Accomplishing something whether big or small, from doing the dishes to writing twenty pages.
14. Children.
15. A tight hug from my Mom
16. My dad pinching my ear
17. Wearing a well planned outfit.
18. Watching a good movie. Preferably V for Vendetta or Stranger than Fiction.


What do you want?

1. To write something great, something that impacts someone.
2. To love someone with all my heart and to be loved back.
3. To have children that I can pour all my love into.
4. To change the world.
5. Always be close to my family.
6. For my family to always be happy.
7. To be a college English professor.
8. Get the lead in my high school play.
9. To travel. I want to not just see place, but feel them. I want to feel other cultures flow through me
10. To know that this world isn’t just made up of horrible things.
11. To learn as much as I can.
12. To make the world understand that it needs to change and learn to love before it’s too late.
13. To meet the Dalai Lama and talk to him about living life.
14. To always be able to write for my entire life.


What are you Afraid of?

1. Failing to be everything I have the potential to be.
2. Not getting good enough grades.
3. Not trying hard enough.
4. Being below the bar with what I accomplish.
5. When my OCD kicks in and that “I have to!” impulse thumps through me.
6. Too much light hurting my sensitive eyes.
7. Not Belonging.
8. Belonging.
9. Going insane.
10. Being normal.
11. Not helping the world with the gifts I have.
12. Not having children.
13. Not being able to love.


What makes you cry?

1. Remembering every little detail of things I can’t change.
2. Regretting not saying the “right” thing
3. Reading memories in my journal that were happy at the time and hard to think about now.
4. “Desert Song” by My Chemical Romance on rainy days.
5. Standing in the empty room that my great Grandma once called home.
6. Blank paper that stays blank.
7. That last phone call. You said you didn’t want to hurt me anymore, but you still did.
8. Writing this list
9. Praying and doubting my religion at the same time.
10. Being pushed down so often by the people who take advantage of my kindness.
11. The evil in the world.
12. People not appreciating the love they have.
13. Losing the people I love.

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