Inspiration

I've taken to taking more pictures now. Maybe it's because I have more time and I'd like to experiment more, or maybe I want to edit the pictures. But some pictures don't need photoshop to make them look weird. Like this one... the blur is a person on a swing. It was taken at night without a flash, so she just showed up as a blur.

I've also started taking more videos of random things. We made a silly video today. It was tons of fun. I took lots of clips using my digital camera, and then we put them together and added music.

Maybe I'm just in an artistic expression mood, because I also made two song parodies today. That's pretty fast for me... I think I got a burst of inspiration today. I love the summer...

Life...

...is amazing.

Every day, I fall into my usual routine just to make it to the end of the day. I take every little thing - my food, my friends, my ability to breathe decent air - for granted. And it is so easy to fall into this monotonous lifestyle. It is so easy to forget that I actually love living life. But I do. As cliché as any of this may be, I love my life and everyone and everything in it. I love waking up after four hours of sleep to see the sun shining into my window. I love eating my simple breakfast of cereal and milk. I love driving to school/work and slowing down for traffic. I love seeing my friends.

But it takes the opposite of life - death - for me to remember. I wish I could remember without that reminder. I wish I could say that I don't need that reminder to enjoy my life... but as sobering as death is, it makes me appreciate the things that I have.