Liz's+Lollapalooza

I live a fast paced life, like time, I never stop going. Between sports, school, family, and friends, I am stretched thin. And I wouldn’t want it any other way; it has made me the person I am today. My life has been filled with mistakes, and filled with successes, and through those ﻿ups and downs I have learned so much. In every aspect in my life I have faced disappointment, anger, and a whole spectrum of human emotions. When dealing with these predicaments, I have learned that I have the ability to make my own happiness. ﻿I have the capability to not dwell on the past and focus on what's to come. I’ve learned that treating others the way you want to be treated really is the golden rule, and if you can abide by this rule, things will fall into place. I start every day with that thought in the back of my head, and sometimes it's as easy as putting a smile on my face. I’ve learned that just because most of my life is spent happy and strong, it doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to have moments of vulnerability. All these realizations in my life can only help me to soar. I can’t be held back by anyone or anything but myself. I guess it is hard to explain me, hard to explain who I am and what I believe in. Not because I believe in so little, but because I believe in so much.

﻿ We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.  Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary

Begin each day like it was on purpose <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Cause when that hourglass runs out of sand, you cant flip it over and start again

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">All I can do is say, Here’s how it went. Here’s what I saw. I’ve been there and am going back. Make of it what you will

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">...and how we can we wish others to induldge it while we refuse it ourselves

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged by his dungeon; but, sustain'd and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">With heaven above and faith below..

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I feel that nothing can befall me in life, -- no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">which nature cannot repair.... I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life..I wanted to live deep and suck out all <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">the marrow of life, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Well everyone I know has got a reason to say put the past away

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Cause im just trying to be happy <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And if your plane fell out of the skies <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Who would you call with your last goodbye <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Should be so careful who we live out our lives <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">So when we long for absolution, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">There'll no one on the line, yeah

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And I loved deeper <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And I spoke sweeter <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And I gave forgiveness I'd been denyin' <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And he said some day I hope you get the chance <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">To live like you were dyin' <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">But we all know there's <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Always something, Tearing you apart <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It's always so much longer, Than you counted on <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And it hits you so much harder, Than you thought <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">But you don't worry, You don't worry <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Cuz you got soul

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Maybe you and me got lost somewhere, we can't move on we can't stay here <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Well maybe we've just had enough...Well man this life seems hard enough

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">﻿It's time to try, Defying gravity, I think I'll try, Defying gravity, And you can't pull me down! <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">If i'm not the one thing you can't stand to lose <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">If i'm not that arrow to the heart of you <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Then i guess we're done let's not drag this on. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Consider me gone--consider me gone

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You're gonna miss this <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You're gonna want this back <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">These are some good times <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">So take a good look around <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You may not know it now <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">But you're gonna miss this

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Here's Looking at you, kid <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Just like a flower poking through the sidewalk crack and just like that <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You steal away the rain and just like that <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">...risen to a degree of determination which commanded respect

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">But I try not to borrow. First you borrow. Then you beg. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Her eyes, that's where hope lies. That's where blue skies, Meet the sunrise. Her eyes, that's where I go <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I've heard it said <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">That people come into our lives for a reason <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Bringing something we must learn <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And we are led <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">To those who help us most to grow <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">If we let them <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And we help them in return <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Well, I don't know if I believe that's true <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">But I know I'm who I am today <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Because I knew you



<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">It well may be <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">That we will never meet again <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">In this lifetime <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">So let me say before we part <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">So much of me <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Is made of what I learned from you <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You'll be with me <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Like a handprint on my heart <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And now whatever way our stories end <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">I know you have re-written mine by being my friend...

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