So I guess this is kind of like my blog world or something. This is actually where my Share the Love world used to be, but I never used it for what I intended it to be. So now it's gone, and I've changed my blog title to The Labyrinth because I feel like life can be a lot like the Labyrinth in legends. It's a giant maze and we're all just people stumbling through it. Sometimes we mess up and make wrong turns because we can't clearly see what we should do, and sometimes we can clearly see that path we must take. Sometimes we do take that path, other times we are led astray by tricks and temptations. I'm trying to learn to navigate the Labyrinth of my life, to find beauty and reasons to smile, and to keep my eyes on the constants, the rise of the moon and sun, the continuity of change, the way time pushes forward and one minute melts into another, allowing us to eventually leave all the bad times in the past where they belong.

So, um...

Name: Sara. (Hate my boring name. And my boring middle name. In fact, only like my last name)

Personality: It really depends. I am a very strongly emotional person and the way I am really depends on my current emotions.

Age: 17 (Senior in high school)

Favorite color: I love all colors and see them as potentially artistic and beautiful...but if I had to choose, blue.

Favorite numbers: 4, 16, 394.

Likes: Reading, writing, drawing, painting, art, listening to music, complaining, skiing, ice skating, making up stories in my head, laughing, making people laugh, cool/wild clothes, inspirational quotes, good friends, Harry Potter.

Hates: any sort of stinging insect, judgmental people.

Religion: tolerance. Well, actually, I am a Christian, but my point is that I don't care if you're not. I am so sick of people using their religion as an excuse to hate others. As long as you're a good person I don't care if you don't believe the same thing as I do. In fact, one of my favorite quotes: "What a coincidence that God hates all the same people you do!"

People I admire: J.K. Rowling (of course), Suzanne Collins, Dr. Seuss, Luna Lovegood (she's real to me!), Barack Obama (No haters please, I'm not here for a political debate), Adele.

My current obsession: looking up videos for songs with Harry Potter clips in them. A good one for this world, I believe, is this.

Welcome to my blog.

Sooo...hehe

I was absent again. It happens. College visits and applications, homework, trying to pass math, arguing with my parents, planning for Halloween. Art, writing, and such. Life. So yeah...

But I'm still alive. Just thought I'd let you know.

PEOPLE. Meh.

It just seems like recently everyone's been worried about someone else and there's always someone who isn't okay and there's shit going on in EVERYone's life and blah. I'm always worried about someone, or having someone get mad at me. High school=drama. I know that. But recently things have gotten out of hand.

There's this bitter tension right now between me and my best friend. It won't last, I'm sure. We've gotten through a lot together, and I can kind of see how we got to this. We're not really fighting or anything, there's just a lot we need to talk about and shit...when there's tension like that between the two of us my life doesn't feel right. It'll be okay. Soon. I hope.

Everyone will be okay in the end. All this drama will eventually work itself out. We'll all get older and more mature.

Dying computer

So, if you're wondering why I haven't been submitting art lately, it is the fault of my crappy computer. it is dying and I'm trying to prolong its life because i'm not getting a new one anytime soon. My laptop is the computer that connected to the printer and scanner, and it also had gimp on it. So now i can use none of these things. So no more art until someone in my house manages to connect another computer to the scanner, and that's taking a while because our scanner is dumb. so...blah.

On the plus side, i have chocolate-chip muffins. They are the most epic muffins I have ever eaten.

Oh yeah.

Emotional day

I don't know what the hell's up with me. I mean, yeah, I'm very emotional and just very stressed overall, but today's just been intense. I'm better now because I ran and walked a few miles and that usually helps to calm my mind. But I've just been so stressed and tense and anxious and tearful today and I don't know why. Part of it may be that my cousin ended up in the hospital yesterday after he passed out and fractured his skull. He's going to be okay, but he had us worried for a while. Maybe tomorrow will be better. In fact, I hope so, because I don't know if I can take another day like today.

My body was tired, my mind was simultaneously anxious and tired, and my legs wanted to run and move. I mean, I try not to complain too much, but it's ridiculous. I felt like I was being torn apart inside all day.