THE MAGIC OF YOUTH

I babysit the two most wonderful children who always without fail make me grin ear to ear. The honesty is charming, the giggling is infectious and their eyes sparkle and their hearts are warm and open, they make you realise that we are here to enjoy ourselves. Sometimes I am sure many of us need to revert to this youth and think about that obliviousness to the morality of life we had and that time when we weren't always thinking about the next step we were going to take and just step into that unknown and pray for the best.
This time next year I will be free of education forever and I am slowly becoming more and more terrified of this undeniable freedom ahead, even though I am making plans. However I will finally have the one thing I have been longing for for some time, freedom. How bizarre to be scared of something you want, but then again doesn't that prove the importance of said thing. But as I said tonight "you just have to go for things and just do them and not even let fear step in your way" and then I thought, right now who am I actually saying that to, me or her? I think it was myself but of all the goodhearted intentions of telling the girl to be like this, then again maybe I was telling her wishing someone had said that to me at her age. I suppose I could go round in circles here. But do something, anything, everything you want to do.

Write a bucket list.
1. Become fluent in French
2. See the Northern Lights
3. Fall in love then proceed to fall a little bit more in love with that same person everyday but also shout at them sometimes and fall out of love a bit so we can fall in love a whole lot more
4. Go to an open air/drive in cinema
5. Sing lead vocals in a band
6. Own a cafe at some point in my life
7. Make an impact on something or someone's life
8. Sell one of my paintings
9. Have children and call them Delilah Anne, Matilda Josephine and Frederick Arthur because I love old fashion fancy pants names and that is okay and all those names mean something to me
10. Paint a mural
11. See the seven wonders
12. Run a marathon
13. Explore
14. Laugh
15. Love
16. Appreciate what I have
17. Sing
18. And dance
19. At least once every single day of my life

L x