Learn to recycle emotionally.
Turn the energy that you use towards disliking yourself to building yourself up.
The energy you use to envy others, use it to be thankful
The energy you use to hate your enemies could turn into love towards those closest to you.
Regret of the past can turn into the hope of the future.
All emotions take energy. Make sure you’re putting yours into the right ones.
Its Saturday Night. A huge storm blew through town and knocked out all the power. But that doesn’t stop the relentless youth. I’m at a Halloween party. There are no lights to be seen except for the stars above. After adorning ourselves with glow crowns and bracelets me and my friends lay on the pavement and stare at the sparkling splendor in the skies. I think a rag-tag group has started playing catch phrase by the light of their phones. Eventually it clouds over but that’s alright because someone has the bluetooth speaker out and soon we’re learning the footlose dance. Clumsily, but we’re learning. Not long afterwards, it begins to sprinkle so we head into the garage armed with nothing more than a glow stick to illuminate the darkness. And we tell stories. Creepy ones that makes us shiver in delight and for half a second we pretend we believe them. It’s the week of Halloween after all.
Life is good.
It’s the third week in October. My and my friends are in a park. The leaves on the trees are a fireworks-like display of red and orange hues, soon sent spiraling and tumbling through the air. The air has a distinct chill but it’s warm in Golden sunshine. Me and my friends walk the trails, sometimes talking, sometimes silent, listening to the crunch of leaves underfoot.
Now we’re under the pavilion sitting at a picnic table covered in a red and white checkered table cloth that I brought. We pass a cinnamon flavored coke around as we talk about silly and stupid things. Life is good.
Ahem….
Sleeping Beauty, a sarcastic fairytale as commentated and told by me.
Part one
At the christening of a king and queen’s long-wished-for child, seven fairies are invited to be godmothers to the infant princess. The fairies attend the banquet at the palace. Laid before them is a golden casket containing gold jeweled utensils (Because you always welcome people by setting a golden casket before them). Soon after, another fairy enters the palace and is seated without a golden casket (*Gasp* She has no casket! How horrid of her! This story has just started and I’m already confused).
This eighth fairy is overlooked because she has been within a tower for many years and everyone believes her to be dead (“I was just taking a long nap, guys!”).
Six of the other seven fairies then offer their gifts of beauty, wit, grace, dance, song, and music to the infant princess (What a bummer for the princess. What about toys? That’s like getting a hug or handshake for Christmas from your grandmother!).
The eighth fairy is very angry that she has been overlooked and, as her gift, enchants the infant princess so that she will prick her hand on a spindle of a spinning wheel and die (Happy Birthday!). One fairy, who hasn’t yet given her gift, attempts to reverse the evil fairy’s curse. However, she can only do so partially (Of course. She can’t do it fully as it would make things LESS complicated! Duh!). Instead of dying, the Princess will fall into a deep sleep for 100 years (That’s kind of rotten. Happy Birthday again!) and be awakened by a kiss from a prince (Ew. Happy Birthday a third time! Lamest birthday ever).
The king forbids any sort of spinning all throughout the kingdom. Fifteen or sixteen years pass and one day (What’s the difference?), when the king and queen are away (Um, where?), the Princess wanders through the palace rooms (Awesome way to spend your birthday, right?) and comes upon an old woman, spinning with her spindle (Just a random old lady). The princess, curious to try the unfamiliar task (Who cares about spinning? I mean really? Talk about boring), asks the old woman if she can try the spinning wheel. The princess pricks her finger on the spindle and the inevitable (It’s always inevitable) curse is fulfilled. The old woman cries for help and attempts are made to revive the princess (Splash water on her face! Kick her in the ribs! Slap her around a bit! I’m full of ideas!).
The king attributes this to fate and has the Princess carried to the finest room in the palace and placed upon a bed of gold (Ow. Not so comfy sounding) and silver embroidered fabric. The king and queen kiss their daughter goodbye and depart, proclaiming the entrance to be forbidden.
The good fairy who altered the evil prophecy is summoned (“Get your hide back here, our daughter is taking a nap!”). Having great powers of foresight (She should have foreseen the bad fairy at the party in the first stinking place!), the fairy sees that the Princess will awaken to distress when she finds herself alone (Because everyone would have grown old and died. But wouldn’t she grown old too?), so the fairy puts everyone in the castle to sleep. The fairy also summons a forest of trees, brambles and thorns that spring up around the castle, shielding it from the outside world and preventing anyone from disturbing the Princess (Okay, where was this magic when the curse was first cast by the badfairy?).
A hundred years pass and a prince from another family spies the hidden castle during a hunting expedition. His attendants tell him differing stories regarding the castle until an old man recounts his father’s words (Wait, how in the world did this guy’s random father know? everyone’s asleep!): within the castle lies a beautiful princess who is doomed to sleep for a hundred years until a king’s son comes and awakens her (By dumping water on her face! Bwahahaha!).
The prince then braves the tall trees, brambles and thorns which part at his approach, and enters the castle. He passes the sleeping castle folk (Because who cares about them?) and comes across the chamber where the Princess lies asleep on the bed (Creeper alarm! Creeper alarm!). Struck by the radiant beauty before him, he falls on his knees before her. The enchantment comes to an end by a kiss (Wait, she has been there for a hundred years! Wouldn’t she have bad morning breath or something?) and the princess awakens and converses with the prince for a long time (“Why in the world are you kissing sleeping women, you creep!”).
Meanwhile, the rest of the castle awakens and go about their business (And totally don’t notice the fact that everyone is covered in spider webs and everyone has grown beards). The prince and princess walk to the hall of mirrors (the place where vain people go) to dine and are later married by the chaplain in the castle chapel (But she’s over a hundred years old! She is WAY to old for him!).
And they live happily ever after. (Sort of. Read part two and you’ll understand)
Because I was bored….
●1.Last beverage: Water.
●2. Last phone call: From my mother technically, but that was actually me calling my phone from her’s cause I lost it.
● 3. Last text message: Sounds Great! See ya then! (Kind of generic, sad to say.)
● 4. Last song you listened to: “If You’re the Coffee I’m the Cream” By Arcadian Wild.
● 5. Last time you cried: Over a documentary, don’t laugh, it was sad. It was about Garden Gnomes.
HAVE YOU EVER:
● 6. Dated someone twice: Uh… no.
● 7. Been cheated on: Heck, no.
● 8. Kissed someone & regretted it: What??? No! (I realize now how disingenuous that sounds on paper but for realsies, no.)
● 9. Lost someone special: Yes…
● 10. Been depressed: Been pretty bummed but not quite depressed.
● 11. Been drunk and threw up: Excuse me? I’ve been thrown up on before and have thrown up but alcohol was never ever in equation. Only germs, I swear.
● 12. LIST THREE FAVORITE COLORS: Blue
● 13. (second color) Green
● 14. (third color) Purple
THIS YEAR HAVE YOU:
● 15. Made a new friend: Yep.
● 17. Laughed until you cried: Oh, yes. Quite recently.
● 18. Met someone who changed you: Uhm… don’t think so. Ooooorr maybe I have and don’t know it yet? Hmmm… food for thought?
● 19. Found out who your true friends were: Yup. Happens every now and again.
● 20. Found out someone was talking about you: Knew it already.
● 21. Kissed anyone on your friends list: EXCUSSSSEE MEEEE????
● 22. Favorite Punctuation mark: ?
● 23. How many kids do you want: Two?
● 24. Do you have any pets: Oh yeah. Lots. But We don’t have time for that…
● 25. Do you want to change your name: Some days. Esther is so pretty and so is Sage… depends.
● 26. What did you do for your last birthday: I honestly can’t remember. I think I had some friends over and ate good food but that’s what nearly everyone does.
● 27. What time did you wake up? 7: 15
● 28. What were you doing at midnight last night. Sleeping like a dead person.
29. Name something you CANNOT wait for: My bestfriend coming back to visit from Missouri. Oh, and the Mr.Rogers Movie. And for me to get my life together. And for Avatar Netflix series to come out. And for me to graduate. And to go roller blading within the next few days.
I’m really impatient, okay?
● 30. Last time you saw your Mother: She’s like two yards away from me… hello, mumsy!
● 31. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life: Hard question… I wish I knew what career path I wanted to follow. #senioritis #panickingalittlebitontheinsideandmaybetheooutsidetoo
● 32. What are you listening to right now: The hum of our very old computer.
● 34. Who’s getting on your nerves right now: My little brother (no surprise there)
● 35. Most visited web page(s): WordPress, soundcloud, gmail, Webkinz (hey, its fun!)
● 36. What’s your real name: Mr.Octagonapus.
● 37. Nicknames: Brookiedacookie
● 38. Relationship Status: Single, last time I checked.
● 39. Zodiac sign: Capricorn
● 40. Male or female: Female
● 41. Primary School: Homeschoooool
● 42. Secondary School: Homeschooooooooool
● 43. High school: Homeschoooooooooooooooooooooooool
● 44. Hair color: Brownnnn??? Kind of boring, sad to say.
● 45. Long or short: longiiiiisshhhhhhkiiiindooofffinnnthemiddleee??
● 46. Height: Short. (Too lazy to find out specifically. I think its like 5’1.)
● 47. Music Genre: Some good ol folk and a little bit of pop.
● 48: What do you like about yourself: I’mmm alive? Intact? I dunno… I have all my teeth so thats a plus!
● 50. Tattoos: Uh, no. I’ll pass.
● 51. Righty or lefty: Righty
FIRSTS:
● 52. First surgery: Hasn’t occurred. Yet.
● 54. First best friend: Rachel
● 55. First sport you joined: Gymnastics
● 56. First vacation: To the mountains in a cabin
RIGHT NOW:
● 59. Eating: Nuttin’
● 60. Drinking: Nuttin’ at all.
● 61. I’m about to: Type this down….
● 63. Waiting for: Drama! (The stage type)
YOUR FUTURE:
● 64. Want kids: Not particularly. I may later on in life though.
● 65. Get married: Sure.
● 66. Career: Yep.
WHICH IS BETTER:
● 67. Lips or eyes: Eyes
● 68. Hugs or kisses: Hugs
● 69. Shorter or taller: Shorter
● 71. Romantic or spontaneous: Spontaneous
● 73. Sensitive or loud: Sensitive
HAVE YOU EVER:
● 76. Kissed a stranger: What?!?!? Are you insane?!?!
● 77. Drank hard liquor: See above answer.
● 78. Lost glasses/contacts: Nope. Don’t need ’em.
● 80. Broken someone’s heart: If I have, I don’t know of it.
● 82. Been arrested: Seriously, what kind of delinquent do you take me fore?
● 83. Turned someone down: Yerp.
● 84. Cried when someone died: Oh yes.
● 85. Fallen for a friend: Eh, sorta.
DO YOU BELIEVE IN:
● 86. Yourself: Some days.
● 87. Miracles: Yes.
● 88. Love at first sight: Not really.
● 89. Heaven: Yes.
● 90. Santa Claus: No. Sorry, Saint Nicholas.
● 91. Kiss on the first date: Maybe… (To be honest I think no, but there are special cases.)
ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:
● 94. Had more than 1 girlfriend/boyfriend at a time: Hahahahahaahaha no.
● 95. Did you sing today: Yes. How can one not?
● 96. Ever cheated on somebody: See #94
● 97. If you could go back in time, how far would you go: If I had to stay permanently, I would go to about three years ago and relive a few things. If not, let’s go visit medieval Europe or Victorian London.
● 99. Are you afraid of falling in love: Depends on who with. SOME people…. *Screams and runs away*
● 100. Tired? Maybe a little.
By the Brooke 