5/25/13

livin' life, man

I left for a while. Don't know why. I guess I just started livin' life, man, more so than recording what I wanted to experience. Funny though, because nothing monumental happened to me. I've been feeling extremely creative, but not in a repressed, "no time to create" way, but more so in a "wish I knew what I wanted to create" way. I'll put pen to paper, and attempt to write, but it's like I am missing a piece to the puzzle, and there is something preventing my words from flowing together to convey the message I'm trying to express, or read like the story I'm trying to tell.

Writing formally is extremely difficult for me. The organization of thoughts is a concept my mind has yet to grasp. My brain functions like my bedroom-in a constant state of disorganization, and yet I can always seem to find what I'm looking for. 

I don't understand why teachers stress that writing needs to be organized, needs to flow methodically. I can only organize my words the way my brain expresses them, and for some reason, that just doesn't seem good enough. Writing has become so methodic, and it pisses me off that expression is now being taught to be a systematic formula rather than an expressionistic medium. 

I still feel like I'm living with this weird haze over my head. Like I'm stuck in a fog that is some how repressing me. I feel like I'm trapped in my own body, or trapping something within my body, that is preventing me from leaving the fog and seeing things clearly.

And yes, my vision may be 20/300, but the fact that the lenses to my glasses may be thicker than George W. Bushes skull is not the reason for my inability to really see things. 

I'm officially on the edge of seventeen, livin' the life of an almost sorta adult. I'm trying to hold out on teendom though, because I love everything being a teenager represents. 

How do I go about telling a story? How do I go about telling my story?
I have no story to tell.
I have no movie-like experiences that make my stomach turn into a haven for butterflies.
I have no experiences that make my heart swell and my head feel like a feather.

But everyone has a story to tell. 

Alright, fine. But I want mine to be great.




i am UO




one of my best friends, Emma

my other best friend, Michala, and me

Clothes via UO, AA, and DSW.
All worn with swagger and sass

photos from my birthday, from those foggy daze, and from life, man.

12 comments:

  1. eva you are literally the cutest person ever

    itsrainingblueumbrellas.blogspot.com

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  2. OMG I'M DYING YOU ARE SO CUTEEE

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  3. These photos are great! I love the way you write, I understand 100% what you're talking about man! (nice pants also)

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  4. I feel like that too I have so much to write but i don't know how to say it, I also love your pants x

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  5. I love these photos they're adorable! I love your pants, they're awesome!

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  6. your writing is so awesome. i know that feeling - it's like charlie in the perks of being a wallflower. "i want to be a writer, but i don't know what to write."
    i really love writing, but it's a mix of idon'tknowwhattowrite and mywritingsucksanyways and idon'thavetime and all that formal stuff. I mean, my feelings are not ordered and perfectly formal?! And as writing is about expression and expression is about feelings, formally writing doesn't make sense. Formally writing is no writing, in my opinion.

    also I WANT YOUR LIFE YOU SEEM SO AMAZING AND YOUR FRIENDS AND SAN FRANCISCO, LIKE, I REALLY REALLY NEED TO GO THERE.
    and i am somehow also afraid of getting older and being an adult, as teenagehood is just really great sometimes.

    love. <3

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  7. As always, you put into words how i am feeling! These photos are so cute. <3

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  8. U ADORABLE THING OMG EVAAAAAA <3 and like eryn said, u always describe how i'm feeling perfectly

    xoxoxoxoxox

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  9. You're an incredible writer, eva. I'm literally in awe. wowww also SWEET PANTS

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  10. girl i totally get you, one of the biggest criticisms my teachers give me is the organization of my writing. I know I am a great writer but yet there is always this push for though organization. What am I supposed to do, compartmentalize my brain? Writing should be a reflection of thought through voice, if you're naturally messy headed, what is the point in transition sentences if your brain is too much of a hamster wheel to actually create finite connections.
    Now on to your outfit, DANG GIRL YA LOOK GOOD. I'm really in love with those pants, beach vibes 4 ever

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  11. you look so perfect it is making me physically angry.


    also UGH I WANT THE CLOTHES SO BAD BUT UO JUST SUCKSSSSSSSSS MAN! AND SAME WITH THE AA CEO! ARGH

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    1. AGGGHHH I know I know!! I try so hard to resist buying clothes from there but sometimes I just can't and I caaaave!!! I know it makes me seem so shallow but I'm sorry--- I'm just a human being!! I AM FLAWED.

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