Second Grade Lyric Flashback

When the visions around you,

Bring tears to your eyes

And all that surround you,

Are secrets and lies

I'll be your strength,

I'll give you hope,

Keeping your faith when it's gone

The one you should call,

Was standing here all along...

I'm in a very religious mood tonight. And what happens when I get religious? I turn to traditionally non-religious songs such as "This I Promise You" by 'N SYNC and I make them inherently religious. And besides that, this song might have some religious ties already in there because half the band members were highly religious men. But I digress on that.

What I'm trying to get at is just how freaking untraditional I am about almost everything. Someone tells me to tell them my life story, I begin with, "Once upon a time there was this girl named Ashley." Who freaking does that? Most people stutter around and go, "Well, I was born in..." But no. I don't do that because that would be 'conforming'. Someone else tells me to go study for a test, so what do I do? I make up a song full of the facts I should be studying complete with my own interpretive dance and hardcore beat-boxing break right in the middle. Why? Because I'm different.

I don't like doing what other people do. And right now I'm thinking that when other people want to show their adoration to God, they crank traditional gospel music like Hillsong United or The David Crowder Band, and they have at it with their hands in the air. But I don't do that very often. Instead, I turn up songs like "Nobody But You" by the Backstreet Boys and "Deep in My Heart" by Britney Spears and "Faith Won't Fail" by Katy Perry... because I like being untraditional and because I like pulling things out of the song that maybe the artist didn't even mean, but that I'm able to find.

I'm just trying to get through this life in my own way, and sometimes people give me funny looks for it, but I don't even care. I really don't. Some people just say that, but I could really care less what people think of me as long as they don't point out their dislike to my face because face-to-face insults always hurt whether anyone says they do or not.

Let me know what you think about forging your own paths through typical situations and whatnot... if you even have an opinion. Maybe I'm just weird.

Why today was awesome: I'm booking it hardcore on my Ravenclaw scarf. Hopefully it'll be done within the next week or two.

My year in numbers:

How Many Books I've Read: 2.5

How Many Times I've Lost My Key: 5

How Many Bowls of Soup I've Consumed: 11