— Natalie Meza

“I find you in everything I do and everywhere I go.

I find you at midnight when the air outside is brisk and my body is cold. I smell you in between my white sheets through the lavender laundry detergent you thought might help me relax.

I find you in gardens when the smell of tulips remind me of the bouquet you left at my doorstep one March evening just because it was Thursday or the day we went to the city on a school day just for tulip mania and donuts.

I find you in play grounds and in nature walks when the smell of bark brings me back to the day you carved our initials into the tree we spilt tons of paint on after working on a canvas. You told me that everyone was artistic regardless of their capabilities so you filled a dozen eggs with paint and we ran around like children throwing the eggs at the canvas. I nearly missed every throw and left a memory forever printed into that tree. That was the day you imprinted something into my heart. That was the day you told me you were in love with me.

I find you in the books I read. We were similar and different all in the same ways. I loved the way new books smelled yet you liked the smell of old books. Every time I step into a bookstore I get a whiff of a memory that has ended along with every other story told.

I find you during my early morning runs when petrichor is the closest thing that I grasp of the motivation you once gave me at five a.m. When the rain pours in the mornings I smell the day we ran our fastest mile of the year because we were so worried about ruining our new running shoes–I can’t get myself to wear those shoes anymore.

I don’t just find you in places, I smell you. I know that it may sound ludicrous smelling someone who is no longer around, but I can’t seem to erase you from my senses. I can’t make you disappear if you’re still lingering in the air.”

— Abrham Hicks

“As you give thought to your future—your future that may be 10 years; your future that may be 5 years; or your future that is 60 days away—you literally begin pre-paving. And then, as you move into those pre-paved moments, and as that future becomes your present, you fine-tune it by saying, This, is what I now want. And all of those thoughts that you have put forth about your future, right down to this moment when you are now intending what action you want to take, will all fit together to bring you precisely that which you now want to live.”

#Married

I would kill to spend the rest of my life with that person.

You’re lucky. You’ve fallen in love with your best friend. The person who accepts you at your worst, the person who laughs at your stupid jokes, the person who knows you better than you know yourself. I would kill to spend the rest of my life with that person.

June 03, 2015

— Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

“It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done. I am living proof of that: It can be done.”

Life is a challenge not a competition. You can still smell the roses and be on a mission :)

So it is June. I have so much to write about :D I don't know where to start. Things are looking up on my end though, how is it on yours? 

Please let me know :)

Cheers,

Smallville

— Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“And he did touch her, firmly but gently, just as she had dreamed. But minus the gloom of setting suns and lonely river banks. She was secure and grateful; he was kind and lively. She had not known there was so much laughter in the world.”

Stress and Exams

Students who manage best in exams:

• Maintain positive relationships with family and friends
• Continue to allow some time for exercise and leisure
• Get plenty of sleep
• Eat sensibly
• Have planned time for study
• Are organised
• Learn and practice simple techniques for relaxation (see the school counsellor for ideas)

Warning signs that stress may be exceeding a helpful level include:

• Irritability
• Tiredness
• Poor concentration
• Poor short term memory
• Recurring worrying thoughts
• Lack of tolerance for others (you may not detect that in yourself)
• Anxious about little things
• Listlessness
• Prone to bursts of anger and tears
• Indications of feeling ‘down’, alone or misunderstood
• Disturbed sleep
• Indigestion, poor appetite.

No one sign necessarily is cause for worry and these signs need to be considered in the context of your life. However, it is better to seek help than to struggle with worries by yourself. Signs of depression or anxiety in particular should not be ignored.
Source:http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/gotoschool/highschool/stressexams.php

no but seriously it’s very important to a child’s development to not be shut down by parents and other caregive

• “Eat” the damn Play-doh cookies.
• Slurp the invisible soup.
• Pretend that they’re not causing grievous bodily harm as they “brush” your hair.
• Always be serious when asked what you’d like for dinner, and never say something silly like rabbit soup. Because they will go get their stuffed one off the bed, put it in your best pot, and fill said pot with water. Then place it on your desk.
• Greet their make believe friends and ask how their day was.
• Always kiss the teddy bear goodnight. It has feelings too.
• Always pretend to die when they shoot you.
• If you are having a fake war with them and you shoot them and they say they can’t die because they are invincible, you don’tshoot them again, because they are invincible.
• Yes, their drawing does look like a butterfly, not a bunch of jumbled up lines.
• Them pounding on the piano is the best thing you have ever heard.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn’t beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.”