Slow Down and Smell the Flowers!!!!!

Second discovery of myself and the world around me today and it started yesterday with a haircut. I decided to give myself bangs because I was bored with myself, and with my hair. So I whipped out the sissors and voila! I had more layers and bangs and I actually did a pretty freaking good hack job! So like..ANY girl knows that when you get a haircut it makes you feel pretty hot. Not only that the next day I had new classes where NOONE in them knew me!!!! teehee!! Not only could I pull off this new haircut...I can be whoever I wanted to be today!!!

So after class (met some pretty cool people although the classes suck pretty badly chem is my worst nightmare and philosophy puts me to sleep) I ended up painting my nails a dark red color...ive never done them red! So literally I feel like a whole new person from two simple and random things. Then as if that wasn't enough to get me going on a path to self actualization I watched Last Holiday with Queen Latifah haha to make this shorter it got me thinking and also a few things had come up in the past couple days that really made me think..my god we are living life so fast!

Like..why are people in such a rush?? Especially in their relationships??? I can plead guilty to this issue as well although now that Ive kind of identified it for myself I am going to stop. When you are with someone you think things are possible with its pretty easy to get carried away. Like honestly Im only 18 and anything is possible for me at this point in my life. I can do anything I want and that's great! Im focusing on today and tomorrow...not really 5 or 10 years from now. It's stupid to tie yourself down this early in life. So when people are getting engaged and getting married so young and after such a brief courtship it kind of makes you ask yourself why. Even things such as promise rings. In my opinion aren't promise rings just that? A promise that you are going to be with each other or something along those lines. So if you've only known the person for a few weeks Im pretty sure you dont know 100% that you want to be with them forever even if you dont want to admit it to the general public. Or maybe that's just my opinion on the subject. Of course everyone's relationship isnt the same and I don't know the whole story. Not that taking your relationship to the next step is a bad thing.. I just think it should be taken seriously and with great commitment and thought. Why throw yourself into something so completely outrageous at such a young age?

So there's my rant and rave about that...I guess I know for myself, personally, that the only way Im accepting any ring for that matter is that Im going to be ready for it and whoever Im with is going to know this... whether Im 18 or 55...and we would have had to be dating for at least a year; maybe more. Living life in the fast lane isn't what its all about. I want to savor every stage of my relationship and take it as it comes. There's no point in throwing yourself into the deep end only to realize you can't swim. You can't exactly just go back to the shallow end of the pool (or a previous stage in your relationship) once you are drowning in it. It's not so easy to take back a ring, or move out, and still have a stable and healthy relationship. I know a few people who may read this are going to think it's directed at them..no its really not I promise ...a few people's current situations just got me thinking about it is all...