Sam The Brick

Hi lovelies

The other night I was lying awake in bed and like any normal night I was messaging my friend Becky. I was lying there, enclosed in the darkness thinking about my gcse options and what I want to be and achieve and it suddenly hit me that I was nobody. I came to the realisation that I want to be all these amazing things and I want to have all these amazing talents and I just can’t say I do right now. I thought to myself, if I die tomorrow, what have I achieved in my life? What will people say I did? And I felt really sad. I told Becky this and she told me "of course you are not just anybody, you are you". Well...I am me but who am I. I've become so engrossed in finding myself and figuring out who I am instead of who I want to be. I told Becky "well, Of course I'm me but I am nothing. If you had a brick and you named the brick Sam then Sam is simply a brick and there’s nothing more to him" And she had a pretty good answer for that in my opinion.

She told me that from the moment we are born every person you meet, every song you hear...Everything you do becomes you. Have you ever had a moment where you have found a poem or book that is so beautiful and exquisite that it has found itself a place in your mind and heart and imprints itself there for eternity? The sort of song that fills you with this indescribable sensation and you know you will never be the same without hearing it a million more times. Every fact you learn, ever place you travel and the people who influence you, they alter you. They influence you in ways that are pretty damn crazy when you think about it. People have so many diverse opinions and when you share them we all take extracts of people. When you spend time with the ones you love they become a part of your life in such a gigantic way. We are developing every day, even if you are sat on your bum having a lazy day with your best friend! 

So it turns out that Sam isn’t just a brick...He has a story. He has been cemented along with other bricks who he shares his life with. He has helped be a part of things that are startling. He had been part of a house. And one day when he is crumbling, He will have a story. Everyone has a story in the end. 

So Sam kind of made me realise that I don’t have to be so paranoid about being something because I've always been something. Me. A human being. The most complicated creature to walk this earth. 

Who would have thought that a brick could influence me....?

PROCRASTINATION

I have just had three days off school because there have been two fires in three days (what's up with that!?) so my friends and I have taken advantage of this and have been meeting up and having fun in that time. The school have sent us work to complete and Its not sunday and I still have a ton left. I should be completing this homework right now but.....

PROCRASTINATION

We all do it. 

Procrastination is the biggest time consumer and stress producer. How many times have you gone out with your friends and told yourself you will write your essay tomorrow. Or watched a T.V show and told yourself you will tidy up later? It's been way to long since later never came! There is no later. Later is the thing we tell ourself to make sure we feel better about being lazy instead of practical. We find excuses for not doing something but "we can either have results or excuses, not both". Personally, I think the best thing we can do is to learn to disclipine ourselves. In the real world, we dont have someone to remind us the deadline of our presentation or to drag us out of bed to be on time for a meeting. In the end, It is all down to us! The best possible thing we can do is to force ourselves to get things done. To write out a timetable of things that need to be done or homework that is due in. Things become so much easier if you get it out of the way! If I had done all of the homework I needed to hand in before then I wouldn't be stressing out about it now. 

One time I got an old cardboard box and put it in the corner of my room and labelled it "The Messy Box". Every time i was about to go out and there were things on my floor: clothes,hangers,shoes,jewelry etc.. I would throw it all in the messy box and tell myself that i would sort it out when I got home. The thing is i never did sort it out and eventually the box was over spilling with random mess. I remember spending like a whole hour sorting through that box and tidying everything away. Not to mention the times where I was running around my house in search for my left shoe which was stuck somewhere at the bottom of the mess. If I had just tidied my things away in the first place, I wouldnt have spent an hour sorting it and I wuoldnt have been stressing out about where my shoe was. I never had a " Messy Box" again but I still procrastinate pretty much every day. One of my new years resolutions is to be able to to the splits by summer. I have only stretched twice and I fel really good about myself when I did because I felt like I was actually accomplishing something. All the other times I have just sat in front of a computer screen watching youtube videos and telling myself  that I will do it later. It is now almost half past eight and I still have a lot of homework to do after I have written this blog. I'm probably going to get a late night because of it. If only I did it earlier...but how many times does this have to happen before I learn to stop?!! 

Stop procrastinating!! If you are reading this blog and you should be doing something else- DO IT NOW!

All my love,

StarUponAwish

p.s. I really am going to do this homework now i promise!!!

♡Happiness Jar♡

A while ago I saw this thing on instagram called "the dream pot" which Is when you get a used jar and you fill it with little notes full of your dreams. I thought this was a really sweet idea so I created my own "happiness pot" I fill it with little quotes and sayings.


gs and It's really nice to pick some out now and again and read them. I would recommend doing this because I feel like it puts you in a better mood and it's also a cute creative decoration for your bedroom. 

They're really simple to create. All you need is a used jar that was previously a jam jar or something and then you can create your own label and tie a cute ribbon around it. You can fill it with whatever you like. You could have a jar full of dates of every time you fall over or a jar full of memories. Its up to you. 


Another really cute idea is to create a friendship jar with your best friend or a group of friends and all write down things you want to do together and put it in the jar. 

I hope this has inspired some of you to create some of these! Good luck and have fun :)

(Sorry for the short Blog.)

Much Love,
StarUponAWish

p.s. I recently created a new blog called the Book Blog. I would appreciate it if you guys went to read it :) I'm going to posting book discussion questions,book reviews etc. xxx

Random Acts Of kindness

"Give the world the best you have and the best will come back to you"

One of my new years resolutions this year is to accomplish a random act of kindness a day. We only live once so we should make sure we do something good everyday even if we are lazing around watching youtube videos (me basically every day!) At the end of the day It would be so satisfying to think of at least one random act of kindness from your day. This could be as simple as helping empty groceries into your kitchen or helping someone clear out their garage. Besides making other people happy makes you happy and will make you a better person. You never know, your random acts of kindness might make someone's day. You don't have to have a reason to help people, take an opportunity. Make someone smile today. Make someone feel good about themself. I have seen these pictures on tumblr of these little pieces of paper that say "take what you need" and they have little things attached to them such as "smiles" or "faith" and I think Its such a cute idea. The world can be a sad and horrible place sometimes but little things like kindness can go a far way. We can make the world beautiful in our eyes by the smallest acts of kindness

 Say something nice and uplifting, tell someone they look beautiful and it will go a long way. Treat people the way you want to be treated. You will be helping people more than you think. Your daily goal should be to make your day happy and to make others happy too.

"If we give a little love maybe we can change the world" -Ariana Grande

Much love, 

StarUponAWish

Fitting In

In a huge place like the world, it’s hard to find your place. It’s Hard to find people who will accept you and crowds you fit into; it’s hard to figure out which way you turn when there is more than one option. But the hardest thing to find is yourself.

“Life is about creating yourself”

Over time, we change. It’s only normal. Different events or people or societies change us in different ways.  We stumble across so many different things in our journey but they all help to shape us.

This blog could be about one million and one thing right now but I have decided to write about “fitting in”

Have you ever wanted to fit in? To be part of the “cool crowd” To be popular. To be accepted? You’re not the only one. So many people of all ages have these feelings. It’s nothing to be ashamed of! However the things people go through to be accepted are crazy. People get peer pressured to do things like smoke or drink so be accepted into groups.

I’m going to make up an example to emphasise this in more detail...

Lilly is the new girl in school and she doesn’t have many friends. She longs to be part of the clique of popular, glamorous girls. She purchases new clothes like theirs and wears lots of makeup to school and makes an effort with her hair so that the popular girls accept her. Lilly Is now part of their group but is she happy?

The group accept Lilly for what she appears to be and not who she actually is. Not for her personality. 

Like in the movie mean girls, These girls appear to be glamorous and popular but they are truly unhappy and paranoid because they are so desperate to fit in.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that you should never change yourself for someone else to like you. As long as you are happy with yourself, that is all that matters!

Personally, I don’t really care about fitting in. Being myself and not trying to fit in seems to revealed a great group of friends who like me for me.

Anyone who can’t accept you for YOU  isn’t even worth your time. After all, why try so hard to blend into a crowd when you can be one of a kind. Stand out and be proud of who you are. 

"pretending to be someone else is a waste of who you are" Kurt Cobain

Happy New Year!

“Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.” ― brad Paisley     

So it’s a new year and many people have written their new year’s resolutions. However I find myself to become Exceedingly Lazy!

What normally happens is people write an overly ambitious set of new years resolutions. E.g: Learn portugeese , read 40 books, Get an A* in everything.

As great as these resolutions are, they aren’t that realistic and you will probarly be upset if you don’t achieve them. This year i have set myself many goals to gradually reach. For example, I want to get back in the routine of being energetic. Last summer I did so much excersise yet over Christmas my lazy side seemed to have taken over me, swapping all the time I would spend doing sport/dance/yoga with sitting infront of the TV eating chocolate...

So this year I am going to gradually work up to being energetic again. Of course that isn’t my only goal. I have many but I am not pressuring myself to accomplish these all at once! After all, I have another 365 days! Set yourself many things you want to do this year and slowly work through them at a reasonable pace. You cant be the worlds best scuba diver and an a* student in a week! (or a year...)

You can always improve yourself and your skills to be a better person. Don't give up and try new things...you never know what the year has in store for you...

Apologies for this late blog. Hope You all had a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year

Lots of love,

WishUponAStar

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Snow ✳

As it is now december I thought I would get my blogs a little bit festive by posting a piece i wrote about our festive weather.Enjoy! 

Much love, 

Star upon A Wish

Snow

the whirlwind of winter has arrived. The frail sprinkles of sugar sway gently to the frozen floor. Perfect marbles of glitter drift daintily past the bare branches of trees,covered in chilly veils and winter white blossom. Falling like refined confetti,coating the ground in a slender silver blanket. The elegant snowflakes catch on the colorless petals of frozen flowers. Lifeless leaves shiver and fall into a beautiful winter ocean. The whistling wind carries the icy flakes down like tears from heaven. specs of snow fall delicately to the  

                                     Unblemished Earth. swaying gently, silently...

Lacing the air 

with silver magnificence, The stars shine 

above and illuminate the frozen river, winding through the silent, motionless town like a snake . The fragile fountain of winter flows endlessly into a starry night.