I'm convinced that even at twenty years old I am still learning what it really means to just be a human being. I spent most of my life being content to seek security, strength and love in my best friend who is now more of a sister than friend. And I'm extremely lucky to have Kae in my life, but it made opening up to other people difficult for me... because for a long time she was the only one I needed.
I also lived with a profound sense of religious conviction, and now that I've stepped outside of that box, I'm really just learning to be confident about my own identity. So please don't take me as someone who's small minded, or stuck up when I talk to you, because I can promise you, I am neither of those things. I'm learning how I communicate with people, and learning how to just be content to be myself.

"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. ...once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to those people who don't understand." -from The Velveteen Rabbit

I love you, whether I know you well or not, I love you for being yourself and allowing me to be myself despite my sometimes timid behavior. I have a lot more passion for you, and for the things in my life than I may let on about. I'm not used to letting people in yet. It still scares the hell out of me. But I'm trying. I'm just really, really lucky because I have some truly amazing and beautiful people in my life.
"Even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you, I love you. With all my heart, I love you." - V for Vendetta

"Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious places, and it doesn't matter where it's directed. ...The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all.
Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last. That's when you see a person at his best, and I've found that someone else's happiness is usually infectious." -Nicholas Sparks (Dear John)

I like to create beauty in whatever form I can. It makes the crap in this world seem a little less important. "Pictures come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead." -Horace Pippin