Halloween Haunts and Deep Thoughts

So if this comes off as a rage about Halloween, that's because it is. Halloween has always been one of my least favorite holidays, just because of the sheer stupidness of traditions that take place. For kids, Halloween is a time to dress up like your favorite superhero, your favorite celebrity, or character from movies and books. It's a time to show your imagination and a time to get free candy while having fun. As a kid, picking out my Halloween costume was probably one of the best things ever. When I was around 5 years old, I was Po from the Tellitubbies, and I remember loving it.

 But as you get older, Halloween becomes a showing of who has the biggest boobs or who can wear the shortest skirt or lowest cut shirt. It's become completely obsessed with sexuality, which bothers me. I understand wanting to go to a party feeling like your best self, but your best self shouldn't also be your least dressed self.
Today I also saw Perks of Being a Wallflower, which stars Emma Watson, and there were a few lines that were very powerful. My personal favorite line in the whole movie was either "and in that moment, we were infinite" or "we accept the love we think we deserve" The idea of a singular moment being able to have so much power over the way we think and are is amazing. The idea that a moment can hold all of the thoughts and feelings that we have inside of us, and just release them all and feel so infinite.
So that's enough deep thoughts for the day. That was just a movie that made me think. If you have a spare 45 minutes or so, I highly recommend you watch Minnesota Nice, a student-produced documentary about bullying in Minnesota. It's very powerful, and honestly made me cry once or twice, and definitely made me more conscious of the things I say to other people.

Walk The Moon

A few days ago I was sitting in my Enriched Biology class, and we learned about the Law of Thermodynamics. Basically, this law says that as time goes on, disorder (entropy) increases. I started thinking about how depressing that would be if it applied to real human relationships and society. Another part of this law is that it requires energy to go back to being normal, which I found to apply wonderfully to human life. If a relationship you're in gets complicated, and disorder and chaos seems to be following you around, if you just leave it to fix itself, chances are that it wont. It requires energy and effort to repair relationships. So needless to say, I don't remember a whole lot of what I learned in Bio that day....

At my school, there's a Sadie's dance, which is our theme dance. Each friend group in my school chooses a theme, and members of the group dress accordingly, typically the couples coordinate. For example, theres the highly used Disney theme, where each couple would pick a Disney couple to represent.  It's a girls ask guys dance, which means I have to start thinking about who to ask and how to ask them. There are of course a bunch of ideas, but there are very few that haven't been used before, or are creative/individual enough for me to want to use. It winds up being relatively stressful, but the dances are very fun so it's all worth it. So i've been spending a lot of time thinking about that lately, which isn't what i'd love to be spending my time doing.... Oh well.

Please take time to check out this song, and note the amazing dance move at 2:06. This is why he's so amazing.

I'm a strong believer that, as a junior in high school, i'm still very much in my childhood. I'm still learning lots of valuable life lessons, learning so much about myself, and becoming the person that I was meant to be. This blog is mainly for me to talk to myself, but as long as other people are interested, you're encouraged to keep reading as I go through my completely ordinary childhood. 

I suppose I should tell a bit about myself to start it off. I'm a junior in high school in Minnesota, and I absolutely love high school. It has given me the freedom to choose what classes I take, let me develop my interests, and generally  given me more freedom than junior high or elementary school. I cross country ski during the winter, and it's one of my great passions. There'll probably be quite a few more posts upcoming as the ski season starts up. I also play fastpitch softball year round, which i've been doing since I was in second grade. Its just a habitual thing now, something that's been such a big part of my life for so many years that I can't really imagine giving it up. 

I'm not really sure what else to put in a blog, so if my first few posts are a bit rough, forgive me. Hopefully, i'll be posting every few days with updates on my life, opinions, and i'll probably do a 30 day challenge at some point. Please, feel free to comment with questions or ideas about what I should write about. I've always been interested in writing, and it looks like i've finally found somewhere to put that up.