Don't You Worry Your Pretty Little Mind, People Throw Rocks at Things That SHINE

Dear Future Husband,

I believe that you're worth waiting for..so I'm going to wait for you. I love you enough that even when I might be tempted by passion before marrying you, my answer will remain no.
I pray for you...a lot, actually. I pray for your purity, your courage and your dignity.
If you're ever with another girl before we meet..it's okay, I trust you. But protect her...she's somebody else's wife and he deserves all of her.
Now, in high school, my friends make fun of me for getting asked out but always turning boys down. I'll never admit it, but I guess I'm a little afraid of making myself so vulnerable to someone and giving them complete power to potentially destroy me..

But when I find you, I'll know...

..Because you'll be the only person who's worth that kind of risk.

Love,
Your future wife.

You'll Always Be Love's Great Martyr

"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains."      

                                          - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

How true! Is it fair to say that 50% of the time we chain ourselves in? Perhaps it's actually a total of 100% seeing as man makes every possible item that might chain us down. And perhaps it's a terrible struggle to oppose the chains of our time from completely burying  us in lies of who we are.
Now this quote came from my grade 12 Ideologies social textbook. Who knew that someone who lived way before I was born could speak to exactly what we are susceptible to in today's society. That is the profanity and propaganda that makes up our very surroundings. It seems to me that we do a whole lot of talking and not enough fixing, considering this was an issue back in 1712. Or just maybe, we do too much fixing that result in a dangerous short-term numbness of reality?
Will we ever learn?
Are these "chains" necessary in allowing us to choose what we believe?
It's truly a shame that these are the very things that hold us back from reaching our full potential sooner...or at all.
It is an even greater loss that it's too complicated to tackle this issue in a crunch of time. Our 'quick-fix' society waits for nobody or nothing that can't be ordered through a drive-thru and slapped together in a matter of minutes.


We are chained in by the fear of giving up our comfort should we truly live selflessly.

Why is it that common sense is no longer common?

K bro, do you even know the words, "I'm sorry, I was wrong" ?
Excuses make me sick! And I do it too. We spend so much time making excuses and we've become so good at them that people believe every. one. Again and again. Over and over.

But seriously, you, my friend, need to re-evaluate. It is impossible to even try to justify why it is that you're living the kind of lifestyle you are.

Y o u w i l l n o t a l w a y s b e r i g h t .

You will not always be right.
You will NOT always be right.

Are we clear? Own up to your mistakes. Maybe you fool some people, but I see right through those lazy excuses. You're not fooling me and you're definitely not fooling yourself. It's time.

Stitch Me Up Right - Natalie Ivnik

http://natalieivnik.com/media.htm

Beauty <3