Long live all the magic we made...

As I try to recover from the emotional rollarcoaster that was the Grammys 2014, I've found myself thinking about Taylor Swift and her music on a more regular basis than normal. Since about 2008 my life has been written out in the form of songs by Taylor Swift, and I know how cliche that sounds but it's true. You see, I don't just love Taylor Swift because she's pretty and does amazing stuff for charity and she loves cats - that stuff is just a bonus. No I love Taylor Swift because even though she is 6 years older than me and from America, we seem to share the same emotions over so many different things, and so do so many other people around the world. I would say I have a varied music taste to say the least, and the one thing I hate the most is when people sham artists because they "don't like them". So what you may not like Taylor Swift, you may think she dates too many guys and is annoying, but I don't care because when I listen to her songs I feel like there is someone else in the world who feels the same way I do about certain stuff and there is something really therapeutic about that. Is it not enough for people to accept that we're all different, and we all like different things. I find nothing more annoying than when someone takes the piss out of me for my love of Swift, they're not always doing it because they hate her, they're doing it because I find some sort of therapy in listening to music. I think what I was trying to get out of this blog was that, I wish people appreciated music more. There are types of music I find really shit, but that's just me. I guess I kind of hope that other people find some form of music they relate to more than anything else in the world, because cheesy as it sounds, music really is everything to me - and I only listen to it!

P.S - it's not quite true that I only listen to music - I play a mean tune on the recorder

*Lyrics in the title are from the song 'Long Live' by Taylor Swift

I'm writing the future, I'm writing it out...

I, at 18 years old and finishing my last year at 'school', can safely say that 2013 was the year I saw the biggest transition in my life. With university creeping ever-closer to being realistic, I've been forced to think about myself and what I want to do with my future. I think it's safe to say this is not a task many kids look forward to doing, let alone are successful in doing. But in doing this - and in having such a transitional year - I've only come to the conclusion that can we ever really plan the way anything is going to happen? In one year I could have made the decision I suddenly hate politics and be working in a bar for the next years of my life. I've always naively believed that things are going to last forever. My childhood friends will be the godparents to my children; and the boy I liked for a year will be the man I eventually marry. But i'm slowly realising that you don't grow out of naivety just because you have got a couple of years older. We all still believe that the years we are in currently are the most important, and every opportunity has to be taken now. Experiences from my parents haven't deterred me from believing that my best friends now will be my best friends forever. And I still believe there is a chance that whether it is out-of-reach or not, everything is going to work out just fine. I often think how I can't imagine a world without the friends I have now, but the reality is that one day I might have to. It's very hard to live in the present when the future gets closer by the day. By this time next year my life will be completely different, and I'm not sure if i'm ready for that but change isn't all bad now is it? Being 18 has been the best 4 months of my life in some way, I've got real friends, and should everything continue like that then it can't be all that bad can it?...




*Lyrics in title are from the song 'Future' by Paramore*