Tonight is your night

You’re the quiet one
Waiting in the shadows
For the next step in life
To take you away

Your smile is genuine
But your heart is heavy
You bend over backwards
Still you’re betrayed

But you need to know

This is your chance
This is your break
Turn up your mic girl
Take the stage

Tell them what you
Have on your mind
Look in your heart
Seek and you’ll find

Tonight is your night

Little do you know
You’re worth more than the penny
That you lay face up
For others to find

You are the reason,
Girl don’t you see
People like you
Remind us we’re blind

But you need to know

This is your chance
This is your break
Turn up your mic girl
Take the stage

Tell them what you
Have on your mind
Look in your heart
Seek and you’ll find

Tonight is your night

Dance.

Dance with yourself today.
See who leads.
See who steps on toes.

Figure yourself out, dear.
You're life isn't forever long.

Impact.

When reading the definition of inspire, I found it to be pretty accurate.
Some words are hard to define, but I think they summed this one up pretty well.
The first meaning of the word inspire is
to influence, move, or guide in a divine or supernatural way.
Okay, I'll take that. It totally makes sense. But then I read on and
BAM!
Number two hit home. To breathe or blow into or upon.
The first definition put words to the idea of inspiration.
The second put words to the actual act of being inspired.

When something truly inspires you, it starts from deep within.
It finds it's way to your heart, taking paths you don't always know exist.
It's like it is breathed into you. It becomes a temporary part of the
process of your being. It reaches the corners of your flesh and bounces
back, dragging with it fragments of past memories, ideas, visions, and dreams.
By the time it reaches your brain, it's nothing but a pile of shards.
A puzzle you are more than ready to put together. You add, subtract, crop,
and fold the pieces until it becomes a finished product. The reaction,
the answer, to the object that started it all.

Everyone's 'objects' are different. Some are inspired more by people;
what they do, say, or maybe just how they do or say it.
Others are inspired by meaning itself. Interpretation, their own or others.
And still others are inspired by anything and everything. It's an
unexplained sort of inspiration that leaves one with a constant tingly
feeling-the sensation when one's foot falls asleep,
but instead of their foot, it's their realistic mind.

The last one, the easily inspired type, is often referred to as a dreamer.
Someone who looks deep and beyond the surface of everyday life.
I believe it is these dreamers who have the most impact on the world.
After all, impact is just a fancy term for the result of inspiration.

People come together in some strange ways

Come together, right now, over me.
-The Beatles

-Clapping sequences:
(i.e. when you hear "everybody clap your hands' people automatically clap to that song)
-Sirens:
when everyone moves out of the way for emergency vehicles;
or when everyone goes outside and looks up when the tornado sirens go off.
-Red lights and stop signs:
when traffic lights go out, and all 4 sides are flashing red, people
tend to take turns like a typical 4-way stop. It always amazes me.
You meet so many people who break the rules on various things,
but when it comes down to it, people are pretty rad about being considerate.
-Voting:
A lot of people vote. Or they vote just to be against someone.
Either way, it's a fairly popular thing to do.
-Television:
M*A*S*H who's finale is the most watched television
show in the history of U.S. television-it had over 105 million viewers.

And a multitude of other ways:
Holidays
Church
Radio-you and some guy from a state over could be singing the same tune at the same time.
Blogs

And the list goes on.


I realized how seldom I talk to the people around me.
I think I'm going to start saying hello more often.

Happy Abnormality

Let me feel you carry you higher
Watch our words spread hope like fire
Secret crowds rise up and gather
Hear your voices sing back louder
-Secret Crowds; Angels & Airwaves

Someone called me 'abnormal' today when I told them I didn't have a boyfriend. And that I'm not looking for one.

At first, I was taken aback. I wanted to shout at him. Yell out that he was wrong.
But as he walked away, I realized he was right.
Very right.

Today, it isn't normal to not have a significant other, or want one (right now).
However, I think people get 'normal' and 'correct' mixed up.
Normal simply means it's common. Not necessarily right or wrong.

Here's some examples:

In the next twenty four hours, 2,795 Teenage girls will become pregnant.
In the U.S., we eat more than 1,000,000 animals an hour
Every 2 hours a youth is murdered.
McDonald's feeds more than 46 million people a day - more than the entire population of Spain.
8,000 teenagers contract an STD every day.

Okay, so the above things are common. Sadly.
Which means they are...normal. Sadly again.
That being in the sense of how it is defined in the dictionary.
It's not right, at all! But it's normal. It's day to day happenings.
As I said earlier, people mix the meaning up. They think 'normal' things
are right. Acceptable. Common. Okay. Good. Up the the standards.

I disagree with some of these.
If one person can say that the fact that a youth is murdered every 2 hours is acceptable...
then we need to talk.
Badly.

I don't know. That silly phrase this morning threw me off. I, like many others, saw
the definitions of normal meaning the same thing as 'correct'.
But after I thought about it, I realized he was right.
I am 'abnormal' in that department.
Who cares?
I'm happy.