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About Me:

As the blog description goes: I am a twenty-something female with a dizzying range of interests. I like all kinds of stuff. I like books, music, movies, tv, travel, photography, etc. I have a genuine appreciation for the creative arts.

The movie Dead Poet's Society was a very big inspiration in my life when I was in high school.  I covered my notebooks with quotes from Thoreau and from the movie itself.  The movie introduced me to some of the great writers and made me appreciate the classics.  "Carpe Diem" was my motto when I was in high school.  The monologue given by Robin Williams to his students about reading and writing poetry was particularly inspiring:

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?" Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. That the powerful play *goes on* and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be? 

Here's a video for that particular scene:



Dead Poet's Society also introduced me to the very popular passage from Walden: Where I Lived and What I Lived For, by Henry David Thoreau that also starred in my notebooks in high school.  Its very inspiring:

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.

The Holstee Manifesto is also one of the most inspiring things I have come across in a long time.

About this blog:

This blog was created to be an outlet for my other interests while my blog on Wordpress would focus on the books that I have read.  It is also an outlet for me to share my thoughts on topics that interest me.