We Are Not Just Labelled Boxes

You know it's amazing how we pick up on different things at different times, I was wondering this week, what to blog about and not coming up with anything that felt right or genuine but 2 things that I've watched this week formed a connection in my mind and my pen started to flow (or type). 

The first was 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' A film I've wanted to see for a long time and finally got to see that (it's a fantastic film for any of you who haven't already seen it!) The second thing was the Gillette advert called 'UseYourAnd'. 

These both got me thinking about the labels we put on ourselves and on others, and I wondered why is it so important for us to fit in, or fit into a mold that our stereotypical society created for us?

Why do we let just one label define us? And why does one choice limit us? Why can't someone who enjoys being pampered also enjoy sports? Why can't someone be smart and be fun.? Why can't someone be "academic" and "creative"?  Why do we have to be one thing or another. Who set the social laws on incongruent personalities and lifestyle choices?

This is something I've been rebelling against my entire life and will continue to challenge until I won't be labelled as the 'boring Christian' or the 'slut' or the 'swot' or the 'failure'.

I don't want to be squashed into box and labelled, I don't know who I am yet but I know I don't fit under one title. There's so many things I want to do with my one chance that I'm given on this earth and so what if they might not fit into what society deems to be a compatible match. This is me. Deal with it. 

We're all different and one label, meant to categorize all of us, can not define any of us.

Yorkie Friday

Morning my dear readers I hope you're all well wherever you are! I can't believe it's Friday already the week has once again flown by! In fact the year has flown by; tomorrow I turn 19, it seems like only yesterday I turned 18! But so much has changed since then, however, I've already spent too much of this week looking back so this morning I'm going to look forward, to a good birthday weekend and hopefully a fantastic 20th year. 

It always seems to shock us how much can change in a year, at least it shocks me, but I suppose we should be used to it by now, more than that actually, we should expect things to change, I'm curious for this time next year to discover where I am by then!

Latte Lunedi

Good morning I hope you all had a lovely weekend!

I found a beautiful place, quite by accident, while I was looking for something else and discovered a wonderful park on a hill which has a fantastic view over the city, a brilliant place for a walk! 

The fact that I hadn't read about it on the internet, or heard about it from someone else but actually found it myself made it quite special! 

It made me wonder what else I would find if I went looking!

The internet is a wonderful thing (obviously otherwise blogging wouldn't be possible) but sometimes it steals opportunities from us.

So maybe next time, if you can, rather than doing all your research online, actually just GO and discover it for yourself, you never know what else you might stumble across! 

Enjoy your week! 

Yorkie Friday

Well good morning my lovely readers, it's Friday again, the weeks are flying by fast we're already half way through January! 

Yesterday was a very special and important day for anyone involved or interested in the film industry: it was of course the Oscar nominations! 

All those films, all the varying awards and all those individuals and teams of people that were nominated. Behind each nomination, is the story, most probably quite a rollercoaster of a story, of how they reached this point. A lot of dreams came true yesterday, sure it's not the actual Oscars yet but to be nominated is itself a great achievement and will change each of their lives forever partly because before their name it'll now say "Academy Award Nominee" at the very least, but mostly because they know, they have the real experience of seeing that hard work does pay off, dreams can come true! Even if its been 12 years in the making like 'Boyhood' or they've have to go through times of constant rejection as the majority if not all the nominees will have done at some point during their strife to reach this stage! 

They, then, can be an inspiration and example to us all, whether you're like me and your dream is to one day be among those nominees or whether it's something completely different. We each have our own different shaped Oscar that we're reaching for! Every single nominee will have at some point questioned the worth of what they're doing and wondered whether it would be better to simply give up. But yesterday they received their answer, and so shall the rest of us if we keep persevering down the road that leads us to our own individual Oscar!

Latte Lunedi

Good morning readers and welcome to the beginning of a new week! I hope you all enjoyed your weekend's. On a suggestion from my Grandpa I took a trip to St. Paul's cathedral for the first time, I would definitely recommend going. I climbed all the way to the top (my work-out for the weekend) the views over London are absolutely amazing! It made me realise the sheer size of this city! 

So my thought for this week is this:

Is there anything that we as individuals are holding onto that is stopping us moving forward, or stopping us fully being the person we are meant to be? With the start of a new year (I'm going to keep using this excuse/reason till the end of January) comes an opportunity, a chance to let go and begin to move on. 

What we need to let go of will be different for each of us and I'm not saying it'll be easy, cause letting go is rarely easy, and it's also likely that we'll slip up but the best way to do it is to make a decision to say "I don't want to hang on to this anymore" and then stick at it. 

It may be that while reading this that thing you need to let go of came to mind immediately or it maybe that you need to mull it over and decide if there's anything holding you back that you don't want to have with you in 2015! 

Think of it as a new year detox!

And to link back to my trip to St. Paul's with a Hannah Montana quote "the climb is tough but the view is great"! 

Have a good week!

Yorkie Friday

Good morning, how are we all? - as my geography teacher used to always say! 

I'm back into routine now, and back on yorkies, thanks to all those who gave me yorkies for Christmas I'm well stocked up for the new year! 

We're over a week into 2015 now, and I'm wondering how you're finding it so far? 

For me I'm very excited for the things I have planned over and after the summer but up until then it's more of the same as how I ended 2014. With this in mind something I'm trying to focus on, a New Years resolution if you like, is to enjoy the moment, to live in the present, not to wish and waste it away dreaming only of what's next. There's nothing wrong with dreaming of tomorrow unless it makes us miss the opportunities of today.