I Am Electric.

My life in the past few months has truly been a series of euphoric experiences. I used to get so nervous about not using my time to its full potentional that essentially I wasted much of it worried over missing opportunities and ending up in an office living a mediocre life
 
One day it just clicked in my mind. I dropped the obsession of wasting youth and began taking things as they come, living freely. I have taken the say yes to as many things as possible philosophy - I have gone wild! Each weekend, no, each day, ignites a fire in my soul, enabling me to embrace every new experience that falls my way. Less and less do I find myself suffocated over the lost potential in life, instead I find myself taking control and participating in anything and everything that fulfills my passions. I feel electric. 
 
The world, or rather humanity, can be exceptionally cruel and unjust. I would sit for hours overwhlemed by that hopeless feeling that there is nothing quite so good that could conquer the evil... almost like there can be a thousand good people fighting for good change, but then that one person who does something terrible somehow shadows all of the goodness. Recently my perspective of this has changed - mainly because I need it to change. Instead of sitting, and thinking, and doing nothing about my helpless feeling, I invest that sadness into a form of action. I think I've come to realize that you can only do the actions you hope that others will, but just by your act alone you are doing something with purpose.

 One of the things I have tried to act on is the unneccessity of eating meat. I am vegan and trying to spread awareness of the unethical act of eating meat/dairy products, as well as the environmental impact it has on the world (astonishing). I am even writing an article for the IS Foundation about the perks of being vegan - and the environmental aspects of it seeing as most people have heard the animal cruelty spiel before. Sometimes I feel like those people who impose their religious views on others, but I can't help how passionate I feel about it!

Anyway, I shall move on.

I have become a lot more involved with how I can help my community and the world in any small way that I can. Just by doing that I feel a spark of hope for the future because I can already see how many others out there are trying to do the same. Even within my community of family and friends I can see my influence rubbing off.

 I'm constantly inspired by life these days. I let my imagination run wild and free, allowing it to mould my reality. People used to define me as a dreamer- and I was, and still am in a lot of ways, but I am more concerned with reality now and making life something concrete, something I can grasp onto and revel in. So instead of constantly living in my mind, I have applied the thoughts of my made up world into reality. Fantasy is my reality. I am alive. I am electric. And the world with all of its beauty and horrors combined is perfectly alright with me.