Words to live by.

"Life is what happens to you 

while you're busy making other plans."

-John Lennon 

"I never think of myself as an icon.

I just do my thing."

-Audrey Hepburn 

"One good thing about music, 

when it hits you, you feel no pain." 

-Bob Marley

"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine."

-Elvis Presley 

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

Learn as if you were to live forever."

-Mahatma Gandhi

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where 

he stands in the moments of comfort and convenience, 

but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

-Martin Luther King Jr. 

"Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."

-Albert Einstein 

Porcelain Doll-Chrisette Michele

Something I've come to REALLY take to heart. 

(I've been doing some soul-examining/searching in paris.)

Here's the thing...

I need you to stop treating me as if I'm simple or naive.

As if I don't know anything about the world. 

I understand that you think you're protecting me.

Well, I could use a little room to breathe

and the respect you give a WOMAN not a GIRL.

If you want to cradle me like a little girl and lock me down...

I'm not your possession. 

I'm a full grown woman...I am not your p o r c e l a i n doll. 

And here's the thing...

you always want to hold my hand 

and say things to me like, "I'm the man so let me do what a man's supposed to do."

Well here's the thing,

you can be the man all the while understanding I am not a child.

You're the man for sure...but baby, I'm grown too. 

It's been a really long time...

I strayed from blogspot for a bit and made a tumblr account because I was getting sick of people reading things a certain way and jumping to the conclusion that it was about a certain person. 

Sometimes some of my writing has no relation to any circumstance or situation in my life. 

I just put myself in other people's shoes and imagine how they would feel.

Which is the beauty of writing.

Being able to escape...

whether it be escaping the harshness of reality, the truth, or maybe just escaping your mind-set... taking a vacation from practicality, if you will. 

So this is the reason for my absence. 

Sorry...

...but not really.