I'd like to start off this post by mentioning that I am a hater of Sarah's blog.

Then I'd like to say that I am currently out of brilliant ideas to blog about. But thats okay. Im sick. Im allowed to be out of ideas.

Pretty cool ass picture

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Pretty pics-courtesy of Jennifers mind

YOLO

Before Zanzibar, I used to find YOLO the most annoying acronym ever. I mean, yeah, You Only Live Once, but what did people think before? You lived twice?
And I also thought it was quite funny, because I've heard it a lot at school, and I go to a catholic school, and well isn't heaven or whatever the afterlife is counted as the second life? What's up with that?
But then in Zanzibar, everything was YOLO. "I'm not putting sunblock on. YOLO!" or "Lets drink redbull guys. YOLO" or "I should be watching my weight but I'm gonna eat these chips because YOLO"
And thinking about it, it is a pretty rad saying. Its like Carpe Diem, like for stupid people.
But it's cool. And you should seize the day, because, you know, YOLO!

dabs of this and that..

So.
I haven't blogged in ages (well about 14 days) but I do, indeed, have an excuse.
I've been extremely busy. I've literally had a busload of projects. This has been my week.
Mon: Tech test
Tues: Huge Science project due
Wed: History test
Thurs: Afrikaans oral and geog test.

And more follows. But here, I promise I'll try blog at least once a week.

Preeeettyyy pictures

school essay

Throughout life, everyone deals with temptation, whether it be something small, and rather insignificant in the bigger scheme of things, for instance that slice of delectable cake that you just know you don't need; or one that would have more serious repercussions, like taking the money off your boss’s desk, because your boss doesn’t really need another trip to Hawaii. We all face the familiar feeling of temptation, which is clearly displayed in this picture, where the boy was constantly tempted to succumb to the sea of death that was washing over him as he was slipping in and out of consciousness; he was lying on the shore of life and death.

Like everybody else in this world, I've faced certain challenges and difficulties. When I was three, my parents divorced. When I was five, my mom married a man who taught me that people can put on very good guises, and people change after marriage. Without going through all of the mundane details of my life, I’ll skip to the present, here I sit today, at 15 years old, six schools behind my belt, I have five siblings through various combinations of steps and halves, I've been told by various psychologists and other specialists that I have depression, anxiety issues, and that I’m medically gifted.

Then I met him. He was my vulture, the one who was just waiting for me to give up so he could take me for his benefit. This boy, let’s call him X, was constantly trying to bring me down so he could reap the benefits when I was low. Like in the picture where the vulture was waiting for the boy to die, X wanted me to hit rock bottom. X told me that if I wasn’t there, he would cease to exist. At the time, I thought X was there for me, but he was the opposite, he nearly destroyed me.

Throughout all of this, like any other human, I've been tempted to do unintelligent, reckless things, and make completely stupid decisions. At some stages, I've wanted to just run away from all of this, I've been introduced to the wrong crowds of people, luring me towards their ways of life with their drinking and smoking habits - at one stage last year, I came very close to self-harming, which was something I saw throughout my crowd of friends. I didn’t.

Now today, I haven’t heard from X in almost a year, but I know through various people that he’s fine, he's still alive. And moving away from the negative people around me, I've managed to see everything through my own, somewhat more positive, outlook of things. Obviously, like everyone else, I'm still tempted to do stupid things-like they say, all the good things in life are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

 I try my hardest to keep my head screwed on straight and make the right decisions. Like the boy in the picture, sometimes it is easier to just give up on life, succumb to the temptations. Don't.  Like EE Cummings once said, “To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.”

I believe that if you can overcome that temptation, you can overcome any temptation.