At this time in our lives, I think we are all trying to figure out ourselves. We are trying to understand who we are, what our passions are in life and so on. Sometimes I feel like I'm being dragged in headfirst to a sea of people all alike and my true own self can't even breathe. This also seems to happen when you're in a "relationship" with someone, even if you two just "like" each other. It's not that it's a bad thing, but people just tend to see you as a single entity, and you lose your identity really quickly. Unless you take some time to keep figuring out who you are, who your friends are and growing yourSELF. Which brings me to my little secret I have. When I have extra time in the day, I find myself hidden down in my room with things I love to do. I'll probably do a post of things I love to do later but right now I'm going to spotlight only one of them. This is it:
I...
Love...
Scrapbooking.
Okay, you can laugh now. It's funny, I know. It started back in middle school, when I would take pictures and then have them developed and have nothing to do with them. So I would stick them in an album, write a little caption and put a sticker on the page. I called it scrapbooking. This year my scrapbooking habits have gotten so extreme that I will go shopping for a food item, a dress or new clothes and suddenly find myself in the back corner of the store where they've hidden all of their stickers, papers, buttons, glue, glitter, chipboard, letters, ribbon, yarn, matting, and embellishments, literally drooling at the selection. And I won't realize it but suddenly all of my money is gone because I've bought a billion of these scrapbooking supplies.
It's a problem.
I know.
And it's cheesy. It's something you hear cute mommies doing for their time off when their children are taking naps. Not high school senior girls. Or maybe there are a plethora of us hidden away scrapbookers, I just haven't caught you all yet...
Anyways. It's my passion. It sets me alive. I love making something that isn't just a paper with words and pictures but actually has something to do with my life. That has some meaning to me, and happens to be a work of art. It appeals to the eye, and enlightens my creativity. Some people I've heard when talking about scrapbooking say " I just don't have the ideas for my scrabook!" And I laugh because ideas is the least of my worries. Creating a new idea in my mind is something to look forward to, something to push me through my homework so I can work on it afterwards. Scrapbooking keeps me being me. So you can laugh now. :) That's all.
