"If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession. Be it music, the ballet, or just a basic degree. You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way. And that’s why you’re young. That’s why you can survive on no sleep, Top Ramen noodles and dental floss, and still look ( Read more... )

There's a beat within me now...growing each day. I can understand it. I wasn't able to when I was younger. I need my times alone. I need him to go sometimes, often when he's here I can't think. I can't breathe. Now that he's away, momentarily, the walls flex inward and outward just as my lungs do. Except tighter, more concentrated. After all, I don ( Read more... )