If Wishes had Wings
"I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded."
Virginia Woolf
It has always been a dream of mine to talk to the people who walked this earth and changed it. As a child, I would often have conversations with them, much like imaginary friends and feel coloured by their vivid thoughts that filled me with passion.
Today, as I sit, feeling dejected, I look to these idols of mine for inspiration I need desperately. If these magnificent men and women were with me in this moment, this is what I imagine them say to me:
"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world. But then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her and imagine she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here and I'm just as strange as you.
You don't need feet, my love, when you have wings to fly."
Frida Kahlo
"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. Don't stop making good art."
George Bernard Shaw
"I am terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity." *And then she'd look at me with the eyes only of someone who knows what it is to be read and understood. I'd grin.*
Virginia Woolf
And last but never the least, the woman whose thoughts changed my life,
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not quite, the not yet. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved but have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours."
John Galt, in Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
Note to self: Nothing is worth more than laughter. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
Virginia Woolf
It has always been a dream of mine to talk to the people who walked this earth and changed it. As a child, I would often have conversations with them, much like imaginary friends and feel coloured by their vivid thoughts that filled me with passion.
Today, as I sit, feeling dejected, I look to these idols of mine for inspiration I need desperately. If these magnificent men and women were with me in this moment, this is what I imagine them say to me:
"I used to think I was the strangest person in the world. But then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her and imagine she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here and I'm just as strange as you.
You don't need feet, my love, when you have wings to fly."
Frida Kahlo
"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. Don't stop making good art."
George Bernard Shaw
"I am terrified of passive acquiescence. I live in intensity." *And then she'd look at me with the eyes only of someone who knows what it is to be read and understood. I'd grin.*
Virginia Woolf
And last but never the least, the woman whose thoughts changed my life,
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not quite, the not yet. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved but have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours."
John Galt, in Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
Note to self: Nothing is worth more than laughter. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.
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