Musings of a Teenage Sage

So I went to the beach this week. It was really fun. Family camp is always relaxing and such, even tho my family wasn't there. I had Hope so that was awesome. We had fun. It was a precursor for what is to come next year...actually next month. Well maybe it wasn't a precursor...more like hopefully it was a precursor, but we had fun. A grand time. ha ;) "I don't give a flying fajitar about him, and he doesn't give a flying fajitar about me!" That was our line for the week. So they announced today that the food was the best yet this year, and i'm thinking, if this was the best, how can i possibly not have any recollection of the food from the years previous? I decided to go to camp at the very last minute, like at 1:30 Sunday afternoon I started calling ppl and we left Monday morning at 8 am. So, that was fun. And everything came together and the Lord really worked it for me to go. And it was good that I went. Sometimes things work out differently than you might expect and for different reasons, but it was definately for the best and I feel much more refreshed that I did before. My self defense class yesterday was quite fun. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think it would be fun to take a year and pursue all the things I've always wanted to do, like learn to fight/defend myself and take ball room dancing (well I haven't always wanted to do that one, but I do now,) and write and read, and run, and get better at the piano and learn a bunch of songs and all that kind of stuff. But then I would fall behind on my real education...the one I'm a year ahead in. lol. So I'm guessin I'll just do all that stuff while I do the real education thing, and stay all busy and stuff. That'll be fun. And I want to travel all over the place. I want to go to Rome and London and Paris and Tokyo and Australia and the Phillipines and South Africa and maybe some country in South America. That would be fun. But alas, there are those dreadful things in life called responsibilties. Sometimes I wonder why in the world I push myself so hard to reach these educational and vocational goals instead of just doing the things I really want to do and enjoying it and learning through all that. But I guess life isn't always the way you want it to be, and if I'm supposed to do those things, I'll do them one day. But I'm still waiting. And I would take hundreds of pictures of everything. It's amazing how much more beautiful things can be come if you view them through the perspective of a camera, like thinking about how you can make a picture beautiful. When we were doing camp a few weeks ago, we went to this flower nursery, and normally I don't like those places, but I was walking around taking pictures of all the girls and the flowers, and the girls with the flowers, and it was raining, so there were water droplets on everything, and I really ended up enjoying it. So I think that would be fun. And through a picture, a memory can live on. That sounds mushy. Anywayz. I guess it comes to dreams or goals, and whether your dreams line up with your goals and if you're willing to change your dreams to match your goals or vice versa. And I guess whichever you choose will win out, becuase everyone has dreams, but it's the goals that win out in the end. Since I'm leaving for Covenant in a month, I'm guessing that the dreams are going to take the backseat for a while longer. And that's probably the way it should be.

posted by Annie @ 1:18 PM