Going back to the idea of festivals, I was hanging out at a festival last night with some friends. We sat under the main canopy for a while listening to the band sing and play their instruments and watching the people dance. I'm not sure how, but the songs that bands choose to play at festivals are often so seemingly perfect that it just amazes me! There were little, little children running around dancing, mixed with older adults slow dancing lovingly with their partners- the music had a hold of all of them. Music spans so many bridges; often not age, race, or gender discourages music from spreading into the hearts of all kinds of people. It's a beautiful and very interesting thing. ... Watching the older (and I don't mean that to be in any way offensive!) crowd dancing sweetly with their partners, I wonder how two people can (I'm guessing that at least several of them have stayed together over many years) stay together for so long and with so much love. How wonderful would it be if all marriages could be like that? ... I suppose that life wouldn't be as interesting if everything flowed terribly smoothly all the time, but sometimes I think that it would be very nice and preferable to how life actually is.
I'm heading off to college this autumn. It's a very strange thought, even though it's one that I've accepted and been looking forward to for years and years. It's so strange how some things remain so much the same over the years that it seems as though time is nearly standing still, and then there will be things that show you how much time has truly passed. There are things in my life that I wish would have changed more and then other things that I wish would have stayed simply as they were. I need to learn how to accept what I cannot change and learn to deal with it... I can do that well with some things but not with everything.
Sometimes this life seems so full of formalities, expectations, and limits that I just want to start a protest. But then, I get confused and don't know where to start and think that I must just be overanalyzing things. *Sigh* I'm thinking, I'll have a breakthrough eventually.
The Keirsey Temperament Sorter was at LeAsT one of the best personality-type-tests that I have ever taken (as far as it being thorough in its questioning and offering a long set of answers). I would definitely recommend this test to anyone and everyone looking for career ideas for themselves or for many other insights!
Well, I think that I rambled on for quite long enough. ; ) Enjoy your summerrrr! ~*M.M.*~
