I have been thinking about my writing lately. Moreso about what little motivation I have been having to improve my writing.  Sporadically throughout last year, I wrote on different writing prompts (for instance, this and this).  I have been thinking about getting back into that lately, say, once or twice a month? I do not want to necessarily dedicate myself to this more than a few times a month because if I do not get to it, then I might feel bad about it. So, yeah. Feel free to join in. I think that I am going to post what the next prompt will be on each post as well as when it should go up around, that way you can join in if you please.

Today's prompt is 18 things that make me happy.

1. Being able to listen to music whenever I want to.

2. I am healthy.

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Take a guess and think about what word I searched. What word caused that photo of an inspiring quote to pop up. Have you thought about it? It's one simple word; it is even shown in that quote. Life. 

I have never thought of life like a camera before, but hey, a new perspective is always a good one (before you argue against that, let me state that it forces you to take a step back, and think about things in various ways, which is always a great thing. Seeing how other people look at things can refresh your mind as well as give you a clear head to think again). Comparing life to a camera - focus, capture, develop - is a great comparison simply because it is true. That is how life needs to be lived. 

Focusing on the negatives is never a good thing. You forget about the positives that are happening in your life (or already happened). You ignore the important things that really demand your attention. If you are trying to live a joyful, good life, then you need to see what is in front of you and live for that. Why would you focus on things that you cannot change? That would a. waste your time, and b. take time away from enjoying the things that you have the power to make a change for/to.  I look at life like this: if you can't change it, don't give yourself migraines about it. Get it, got it; nod your head yes.

Capture the parts of life that make you smile, the parts that you want to look back on and say, "that was amazing." Forget about all troubles.  Live in the moment so that that moment will be forever ingrained in your head. Think about this: when you take photographs, you get the good and bad things, but what do you prefer? The good things, usually. So why not capture your life like that? 

Developing the bad parts are necessary to grow in life.  It allows you to learn, understand, and continue on.  The part that you need not get mixed up with evaluating whatever that bad thing was is focusing on the bad parts of life.  Do not focus! Do not orbit your entire life about something that happened and cannot be changed. You will get nowhere when you are like that. Instead, understand what happened, cry about it if you please, then move the hell on. Bad things happened to everyone, but it is up to you (and only you) to choose how you want to respond to that and what happens after. 

Besides, your life has plenty of film that is available, so if one shot comes out quite icky, you can always shoot as many more as you please. Don't waste it on invaluable things.

Anyways, I believe that I mentioned to you all how I now take a Journalism class? Just nod your head yes. Well, that is the beginners class in my school, while Newspaper and Yearbook are advanced. The Newspaper staff is running low though, so they will be needing help covering stories, etc, and I signed up to help them in certain areas if necessary. I can either help with photography or writing (and I can also submit articles of my own if I please). This means I need to start touching up on my writing (not that I don't do it whenever I write for this blog, haha). A website (a free one at that) called Language is A Virus is going to help me do that. I found this website a month or so ago, but I did not really use it because...y'know, it was whatever at the time.  The website came up again today on Found Love. Now What?, and I am so happy that I found the site again. I'm planning on using its writing prompts for this blog when I have no darn clue as to what to write, and in a notebook that is purely for me to practice my writing skills.

I don't...want summer to end. Right now, I am sitting in my room freezing (because I'm too lazy to grab a heater or turn on the heat) because the weather is freaking crazy! Just earlier this week, it was 90 degrees! What the hell happened? I mean, I'm excited for Fall and all, but can we get pretty leaves changing, sweater and boot season, and slightly warm weather? I don't care - I'd take that.

I don't...want to miss any October activities this year. I need to go to a Haunted House (I went to one two years ago, but missed last year because my sister chickened out), go to Halloweekend (at Cedar Point - it's so fun!), go on a Haunted Hayride, and actually dress up for Halloween (yes, can't stop, won't stop). 

I don't...and I do want Christmas to hurry up. Part of me is dreading the season because we had to put my dog (Missey) down two days before the Holiday because her cancerous tumor burst and she was bleeding a lot, and the tumor on her back was humongous, but another part of me really loves Christmas and wants it to come. 

I don't...like that I don't have enough money to currently buy more sweaters and stuff for Fall.  I need to stop spending so much money on food, and I'll be okay. (ohgosh, it's never going to happen.)

I don't...like Geometry.  It's stupid. How the heck do I want to become an Architect, yet hate finding out what CE equals when I only know what AB and BD equals. Ohlawd. I am sensing a [future] major change.

I don't...want this weekend to end, or at least give me a four day one. On Thursday, my school got out at 1pm because of a power outage.  Now if only the heat in Michigan could go back up for two days (Monday-Tuesday) and give me a leave from going to school, that'd be perfect.

I don't...like how my eyes squint up so much when I smile. Ew, nor how they look when I am not wearing glasses. Ewwwww.

I don't...know what else to say. Ho har har.

I don't...know why my phone is suddenly acting so stupid. I can unplug it from the charger at 100%, and within 5 minutes (of not touching it!), it will have 87. What. the. hell. Maybe I just need a new battery?

I don't...know how to have non-awkward ending of posts.