Last Post for October

Someone told me recently that they checked my blog everyday, so I realized that I'd better start updating it....
So as a result I've blogged three times in the last two days.
Anyway, I'm sorry for not blogging all October. I really do suck at this thing sometimes.
Stupid busyness.
It doesn't always make you happy - just more distracted.
And it also seems the busier you are the more you want to procrastinate.
Something I'm very good at doing...
Anyway good night! Hope you enjoyed my last post for October. And all my other ones (not that there was that many of them!)

Jordan

The best way to be

I'm no longer a boy

- I'm a man now.

But I can still climb trees.

Jordan

Moments

Like shooting stars
How brief we are
I wish this moment could last forever...
- Decyfer Down, Forever with You

Ever get those perfect moments?
You know, the ones where you just look around you and everythings pure awesomeness?
In those moments you forget all your problems. You forget the assignments you have due in. You forget your family issues. You forget the fact that you're terrified of next year. You forget the fact that we live in a world where pain is more common than it should be, a world where everything is upside down and imperfect.
All that is left behind, and you're left only thinking of how amazing life is.
It may seem selfish, to have that moment. It's not really fair, when there are so many people sunk in the pits of depression, living life with a raincloud over their heads. It's not really fair when half the world's population is struggling to meet the basic needs.
It's not really fair, but it is a truly glorious moment.
And in that moment you wish it could last forever. You look around, and it is all perfect. The sun is shining. The beach is golden. The water is warm (well, warm-ish). Your friends are all around you, and we're all laughing. You feel safe. Secure. Happy. For once, you are totally content with life as it is in that moment.
The problem is, those moments don't last forever. Sooner or later, you come back to earth. Reality hits, and it's never very softly either. You realize the world isn't perfect. That humans are flawed. That there's another cloud which covers up the sun.



And yet...




Those moments remind you of something which you have forgotten - like a song whose words have long been lost. You realize that yes those moments don't last forever - but they do still happen. And it makes you think that their are still times when life bursts out of the drab shell we so often put it in. That nothing can hold you down forever. Not even reality. Not even gravity. That one day you will finally embrace the freedom that you have caught a tantalizing whift of. That life is still glorious, despite the messes. That humans are still worth being around, even though sometimes all we do is fight and destroy each other. That it dosn't have to be the way it is.


And...



In that moment you realize this: that despite it's imperfections, it's still a beautiful world.



I had one of those moments today.

Jordan

It's been such a long time!

Feels like such a long time since I blogged last! Well, I suppose it has been really....
Anyway October's been a pretty intense month for us. We had a gig at the DHS Talent Quest at the start of the month and that went really well (even though we got beaten by a band who'd only been around for a month!). Then it was a scramble to get some schoolwork done before the holidays. They were pretty busy for me too cos I was working to save up some money for next year....
So I didn't really have much of a break, but at least this is the final stretch of school left, and for me this time it's forever! STOKED!
Oh and just in case you didn't hear the news, (New Zealander's if you don't know this you should be ashamed!) the ALL BLACKS WON THE RUGBY WORLD CUP! WHOOO!
Yeah so that's pretty tops.
:)
Hope you've all had a lovely time, and have been blogging more than me (which isn't hard to do!)
Will catch up again soon,

Jordan