My fingers are tingling from falling on my funny bone yesterday. I can’t help but walk with a limp. Yet, I WILL walk across that stage for graduation like nothing’s wrong. Watch me, bitches.
My loves? Green tea, gelato, zillion-calorie coffee drinks, cupcakes, vintage jewelry, broaches, vinyl, quality television, Disney, Harry Potter, books, folk music, indie music, John Hughes, shopping, boys, pictures, and YOU, if you've read this far. People who inspire me: Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Scarlet O'Hara/Vivien Leigh, Joan Crawford, and Gregory House. Keep calm and carry on.
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"Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair."
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Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
This is precisely why I am not overtly excited/sad to be graduating high school tonight. I feel like everyone is upset/disappointed with me because I didn’t get any big honors or awards and I don’t even know where I’m going to college. But it doesn’t bother me that my life up to this point has been less than rewarding or spectacular. I never wanted to be the girl who peaks in high school. I’m going to be a bad-ass motherfucker one of these days, and it’s not going to be because of my GPA or my list of extra-curriculars. I’m resilient, I’m tenacious, and I’m tough. I have had every reason and excuse to give up the past three years, and I have been dealt some ugly hands. But I can still hold my head up high, and I will continue to live a strong life. That is what I have to be proud of myself for tonight.
(via nogreatcathedral)
