"We have no choice over what colour we’re born or who our parents are or whether we’re rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we’re here."
Sunday, 16 May 2010
Listening to the music of my earlier raging years
I have almost lived here three months. Seems crazy.
What have I done?
-moved out of home, into a flat with complete strangers, to a city completely foreign and unknown to me. =D
-went to my first Northern Easter Camp.
-A+'d my first paper.
-settled into Roskill Baptist.
-went to 'town'. Almost got hit by a couple of cars.
-sat in a few cosy bars with a nice drink and a good friend.
-cried over homelessness.
-got free furniture off the side of the road.
-spent a lot of money on postcards xD
-been a photography model a wee bit for arty friends.
-Handsewed my first hem without a pro sewer watching over me!
-sat in Mt. Eden crater as the rain fell, with Elysia.
-read poetry at the Aotea Centre, to a weird audience.
-ferried to Devonport.
-bussed a lot.
-drunk a bit of tea.
-received money when I needed it, anonymously, radically.
-I now have a chiropractor.
-Got rid of my bed. Now sleep on the floor on a mattress.
-LEARNT TO COOK!!
-been dumpster diving.
-acquired a lot of folk music.
-worked at Women's Refuges etc :)
-been to the Auckland markets.
-Had some epic Skype conversations with some new good friends
-READ On the Road, The Little Prince, Man Alone.. and others, I think.
-went to a party with a completely purple painted face.
-spooned.
-been freaked out at crazy Auckland stuff.. now I realise I find it so normal.
-watched New Moon and almost died bleerrgggh
-sat on a beach/bay late at night and toasted marshmallows over a fire
-been to Bethells and Muriwai Beach
-decided what I'm doing next year - Wellington
-won a large scholarship, randomly.
-realised I don't like talking as much as I thought.
-realised so much about how my upbringing has shaped me
-realised its not bad to have money
-realised its not bad to have ambitions
-realised I am content
-realised I am whole so I can help others
-realised writing is in every cell of my being
-realised God is hard to understand, but that's okay
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ReplyDeletewow this is so cool! you must feel like a different person sonya
ReplyDeletewhat do you think of the little prince? i think its very nice
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