Blogging

"Blogging is NOT writing. It's just graffiti with punctuation!"

Maybe that's true. Maybe it's not.

But blogging is a way to get the word about something out there.

I saw the movie "Contagion" this past weekend. In it there was a character that used his blog to get the truth out to the people. He blogged about all the lies the government was telling and the truths they were hiding. He had something like 12 million followers that believed him and based whether they got a vaccine for a deadly disease or not on what he said. I believe that whether his blog was graffiti or writing, it was listened to.

Did you ever drive under a bridge and stop to read a novel? Or political essay? No. You paid attention to the graffiti. Political, racial, social, educational, profanity. Whatever. You remember the graffiti, the emotion in it connects with you. That's why I think blogs are better than political essays and the BS the news and government feed us.

These are the images and thoughts that stay with us and that affect our daily lives more than essays and news articles. The messages we see out on the streets everyday affect more than some essay ever could. 

If someone wrote an essay about a smart girl and tried to get the point across in that essay that smart girls are pretty and a few girls read it, great. But putting the point, right out there, exactly where girls are most vulnerable and in the place they would think the complete opposite is how minds are changed. That's the graffiti that is on the walls and on our hearts.

So blogging isn't just blogging, it IS graffiti. Graffiti on the internet. And graffiti on your brain. 

So I dare you, not to go buy spray paint, but to start a blog. Whether you stick with it or not. Just start one. 

Put your graffiti on the world. 

Good Life

As a teenager, I think a little more mature than most people my age. And sometimes that's a good time. And other times it isn't. But what I have learned recently is to live in the moment and to not over-think things!

 

I am a teenager. I am supposed to be free. And live life like it's my last. And I plan on doing just that. 

Pages

Check out my pages to the left --->

I have posted a whole bunch of quotes, poems I have written, and poems I have not written but that I like.

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The Glass Shatters Into Stars

The title of this blog is based off of a random drawing I made tonight.

I randomly though of a broken clock and numbers scattered all over the page. But then there was all this empty white stuff underneath the broken glass. So I started to think what is behind time... what is behind broken time. So I thought... and dreamed. And that's exactly what's behind it. What I can dream up can be. And so I drew stars and the universe. Because I don't really understand it, but for some reason I am drawn to the unknown... I think we all are. 

Anyway... I'm Carrie. I am going to use this new blog as a place to keep all of my ideas. I try to write in journals and keep thoughts together but I never can seem to put them all in one place. So I am going to use this URL to keep sketches, writing, poems, thoughts, anything my mind can imagine. I might post just a picture one day.... 

And that's another thing. I am not going to promise myself I will use this everyday, or twice a week, or any set amount of time. Because as you can see from my sketch above time gets broken just like promises. I don't make promises I can't keep, and I can't keep a promise of using this every so often. 

And, that's about it. I am going to have a main blog part for everything I put up but then I am going to make tabs on the side bar that will say "Sketches" and "Poems" so that I stay a little organized. See, I am really good at ranting and doing random unorganized things. But I need a tiny bit of organization in my life or I go completely crazy.