This is not a respect for elders or your parents or your body, it is a general respect for everyone and every thing from your younger brother to the older man on the bus. In my mind age does not earn you respect, I believe you should respect everyone despite age and respect them up until the point where they disrespect you. I have had a few times where a rude elder has ordered me to respect them after they had just disrespected me right in my face. I tell them no, because they did not respect me, why should I still respect them. I stand very true to this, or at least as true to it as a human can with words.
Currently reading: Tropic of Cancer, The Fault in Our Stars, and Catching Fire
I’d take suggestions about books too
Voices that burn my skin like acid rain,
Falling frequently,
On to the concrete,
When I wish to be strong,
My umbrella comes out,
Big bright like a yellow polka dot sun,
Protecting me from harsh syllables,
And twisted tongues,
The labors of our work never dwindles,
They only pile on until we are drowning,
In the gifts we once appreciated,
Now all we strive for is air.
Look up, darling.
Today is my last day of high school,
OhMeOhMy,
Look how far we’ve come.
St. Peter’s cathedral
Built of granite
Ever fearful of the answer
When the candle in the tunnel
Is flickering and sputters
And fading faster
It’s only then that you will know
What lies above or down below
Or if these fictions only prove
How much you’ve really got to lose
At St. Peter’s cathedral
There is stained glass
There’s a steeple that is reaching
Up towards the heavens
Such ambition never failing to amaze me
It’s either quite a master plan
Or just chemicals that help us understand
That when our hearts stop ticking
This is the end
And there’s nothing past this
There’s nothing past this
There’s nothing past this
There’s nothing past this
There’s nothing past this
There’s nothing past this
There’s nothing past this
There’s nothing past this
I want to understand myself, I want to be myself, I want people to see who I am, I want people to know who I am, I want someone to understand who I am, I want someone to like who I am, I want someone to tell me what I can be, I want to be strong, I want to be passionate, I want to be honest, I want to be witty, I want to be funny, I want to be creative, I want to be original, I want to be beautiful, I want to be reverent, I want to be everything, I want to be nothing, I want someone to tell me I am everything, I want to be infinite, I want to be endless, I want to be boundless, I want someone to drown in the pool of me, I want someone to burn themselves on my being, I want someone to be lifted by my gusts, I want someone to feel grounded by my compassion, I want to learn, I want to explore, I want to experience, I want to see, I want to touch, I want to taste, I want to smell, I want to hear, I want to feel like star dust, I want to feel at home, I want to feel the sand, I want to feel the bark, I want to feel the rain, I want to feel the sun, I want to feel your skin, I want to be happy, I want to have closure, I want to stay up all night, I want to wake up early in the morning, I want to speak the language, I want to be the language, I want to hold hands like it will last a life time, I want to believe in miracles, I want to believe in fate and destiny, I want to hope like it is my job, I want to cook like I want to eat, I want to draw like I am a starving artist, I want to run like I am an athlete, I want to laugh like I am a child, I want to photograph like I am losing myself, I want to sleep like I have an eternity, I want to drink coffee like it’s water, I want to be myself.