Hi everyone!!
I officially started spring break yesterday, but it doesn’t feel like a spring break…. Just because I’ll be so focused studying for my two exams after spring break. 🥲 How can it be a break like this??!!!???? Anyway…
I haven’t been doing very well, but on the positive side of things, I got to spend time with my best friend this weekend. It’s always a pleasure hanging out with her!! I have been trying to find the little joys in life, and one of them has been reading. I really have been enjoying Frances Hodgson Burnett’s books. I specifically have been reading The Secret Garden and A Little Princess, but I hope to read more of her books in the future! I can only best describe her writing style as “magical”; I think that’s the perfect word to describe it.
Books have always been a source of escapism for me, but so has music! I’ve been loving Owl City’s album “Ocean Eyes.” An amazing musician who is criminally underrated!! Please give him a listen when you get the chance! My favorite song from that album is actually the starting track, “Cave In.” It’s a wonderfully charming little song with a big theme on breaking free to a brand new place without looking back. The production of Ocean Eyes is a lot more sophisticated than Of June, Adam Young’s first album under the name “Owl City” (he previously released music under a different name, AKA Sky Sailings.) I still love Of June, it was the first Owl City album I fully listened to, and the track Hello Seattle will always have a big place in my heart. Owl City music is also “magical” to me in a way, because it’s so imaginative. Listening to an Owl City song feels like I’m daydreaming, drifting off to a new situation and place in my mind…
I’ve been really enjoying these two things lately, and I’ve been trying to fill my spring break with as much joy as possible, even though I still have to work and study. Those two things are difficult, but I’m immensely privileged to even work right now and go to college, so I always remember that what I might complain about now is someone else’s dream. As for dreams, I struggle for them all of the time, but I know that in the end, my hard work will be all worth it, and I’ll look back on my younger self with pride. It’s hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel sometimes, but there are ways that we can make the journey more tolerable.
See you next time, look forward to my next post!!!! xxxx
