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gildedmuse

Raving: Let's Go

Aug 09, 2009 23:37

I love reading. I'll read almost anything, it's true, but I have this passion for books and the written word. I love learning new ideas, having them wild all over the page or neatly organized in a clip list. I love that, in reading, someone can make whole arguments to you and no one is there to counter them or shut them up. You just read and listen ( Read more... )

post: the raving muse

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justapieceofme August 10 2009, 06:03:46 UTC

I'm with you. Let's fuckin' do it.

a_flame_within August 10 2009, 06:53:45 UTC

Oh sweetie, this is exactly how I've felt for two years. The urge to do SOMETHING ANYTHING is sometimes so strong I want to scream. I one hundred percent agree with everything here. Let's do it. Just tell me when and I'll cash out my bank account. My biggest fear is that our generation will do nothing, be known for nothing. There has got to be some passion left in this world.

gildedmuse August 10 2009, 07:53:47 UTC

I want to - I want to so bad. But I'm scared. Of course I'm scared. I was raised to be afraid that I won't get a good job a good husband a good life. Because who will pay for your health insurance if not your company that you make yourself sick for? Who will love you if not the one single person you have focused on loving above all else? How will you have a decent life if you life isn't just like this ( ... )

gildedmuse August 10 2009, 07:54:09 UTC

YOUR WORK IS NOT WORKING ( ... )

shadow_mage August 10 2009, 15:04:11 UTC

Fear, and health and disabilities me damn, I'm with you all the way.

At least in spirit, you ALWAYS have my support.

anonymous October 26 2009, 05:21:03 UTC

I love you- you're amazing. How uplifting motivational refreshmg and real!

admiration rosecelest November 15 2009, 06:51:29 UTC

I agree with you so completely. With this post, you have put eloquent and forceful words to all the whispers, all the inklings and edges of thought and hesitant hopes that I've left uncompleted for fear of what I'm feeling. You are so spirited and direct and honest- I find you inspirational and I am SO with you on this. Someone's got to do it, and I would so go for it with you- across the country, singing, protesting, laughing, starting something to make others react to.
I am so wholeheartedly with you on this.

Re: admiration gildedmuse November 19 2009, 04:31:00 UTC

Thank you. I have to admit that I haven't exactly taken off to explore America's wide open heart but I find myself too attached to school at the moment (I don't feel bad about this - my teachers are brilliant and I feel so well equipped with the words of some of these writers connecting me to new ideas and sparking my own original thoughts from sudden jolt of life they give me). Still, after years of awkward shyness I spent last year pushing myself, making a conscious attempt to ignore that built in voice that tell us "no, good girls don't say those sort of things - good girls don't make such stands" and found that what I thought was simply my personality, a quark that kept my quiet, was not my voice at all. I still hear it whispering sometimes and now it sounds so strange and foreign and not at all part of me, something else telling me what to do and I let it control me for so long. I still let it sometimes, and maybe the damage is done, maybe it'll always be there, but after so long I've finally learned. It's a sneaky little thing, ( ... )

Re: admiration gildedmuse November 19 2009, 04:31:08 UTC

As you might have noticed, one of my experiments in this is just letting my thoughts flow, not being ashamed of them. (I sort of still am. See how I apologize? But I recognize it, so I know it's a part of me, and I can change what I know. I'm only held back by those things I refuse to question). It's been so good. I feel creative and alive! That's what I want to share with others, so it's beautiful to find it myself.

I'm making myself ready. I can feel it, this potential to do something great. Not just me, I feel it in everyone, in every situation it's right there, so close, pulsing. It's waiting, or we're waiting, but soon - soon we'll find we're ready to move, and we can make a movement and it's happened before and it'll happen again, we just have to find it in ourselves to block out those whispers that tell us no, good girls don't change the status quo. Because I believe that everyone can, we just have to move, we just have to stand. We are beautiful and powerful and whole, each one of us, without a doubt.