tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41376574278343766362024-02-19T23:58:46.903-08:00By Malak.“Why be a prop in someone else’s story, when you can tell your own.” — Sara Ziff- Malakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11115849976859396648noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137657427834376636.post-16556997721636099452013-11-07T08:15:00.001-08:002013-12-08T13:59:51.316-08:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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“But I’m never going to know what his skin feels like pressed against mine, </div>
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or what he likes in his coffee. </div>
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Or if he even likes coffee… and I wonder why I love a stranger with all my heart, </div>
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and why someone who doesn’t even know my name means more to me than I mean to myself.”</div>
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- Malakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11115849976859396648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137657427834376636.post-83541752331738724002013-08-29T16:07:00.005-07:002013-08-29T16:07:38.892-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
“There are 7 billion people on this planet who I have not met,</div>
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and 195 countries I have not visited.</div>
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Yet I am stuck in this insignificant town,</div>
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being pressured into making decisions about my future,</div>
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when I barely even know who I am”</div>
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- Malakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11115849976859396648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4137657427834376636.post-91999445518748614642013-07-30T23:27:00.001-07:002013-12-08T14:00:04.524-08:00<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 115%;">You know what I’ve been craving for since I was 12 ? <i>roadtriping around
the world</i>. I’ve been craving for night naps before tiredly walking into a
strangers home. For sleeping on the van floor overnight after a show or
festival. Craving for driving. and driving. and driving.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #444444; line-height: 115%;"> Driving all over the countries. For</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 115%;">
loading in, setting up, show time, tearing down, loading out.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #444444; line-height: 115%;"> For</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 115%;"> seeing only the parts of cities
that you drive through.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #444444; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 115%;">For
peeing in a hundred different toilets.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #444444; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 115%;">For
only eating wheat thins for food in a day because I’d spend my daily food money
on a single starbucks drink.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #444444; line-height: 115%;"> For</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 115%;">
hearing the same songs from the same artists twenty nights in a row. For waking
up every morning with songs from those three artists in your head every
morning.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #444444; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 115%;">For seeing scenery i
never would have otherwise. For learning just how generous strangers can be,
when they open up their homes to let me sleep, and feed me and share food that
they have made with me. For visiting places i’ve never been before.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #444444; line-height: 115%;"> For</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 115%;"> a lot of instagram photos.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #444444; line-height: 115%;"> For </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 115%;">learning to let little things go.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #444444; line-height: 115%;"> For</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 115%;"> stealing away those private
moments to read the book of common prayer.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #444444; line-height: 115%;"> For watching different sunsets and sunrises every single day.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">For laughing so much I get the hiccups (several
times in one day).</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"> For</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"> inside
jokes. For learning how God’s grace flows into everything. For standing behind
a merch table conversing with strangers in hopes that they will put money into
the gas tank, but moreso in hopes that they will feel valued. For learning to
handle fangirls, hot weather, cold weather, tiredness... And also for body odor
& febreezing the van way too much.</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"> For</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">
van-dancing to terrible rap music. For meeting new people. For making new
friends. For finding a new kind of family. You know what I’ve been craving for
? For getting wanderlust until I find my self.</span></div>
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<i>I feel hungry to learn and be better. </i></div>
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<i>I want to travel as far and as widely as possible. </i></div>
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<i>I want to sleep on the floors if I have to.</i></div>
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<i> I want to find out how other people live and eat and cook. </i></div>
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<i>I want to learn from them wherever i go.</i></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Get a job. Go to work. Get married. Have children. Follow fashion. Act normal. Walk on the pavement. Watch TV. Obey the law. Save for your old age. Now repeat after me. "I am free"</span></span></h2>
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What they did not want you to ever find out is that your generation, the generation born between 1980-1996, actually <strong style="margin-top: 0px; outline: none 0px;">outnumbers the Baby Boomers</strong>. They knew that if you ever turned your eye towards political reform, you could change the world. They tried to keep you sated on vapid television shows and vapid music. <strong style="outline: none 0px;">They cut off your education and fed you brain candy. They took away your music</strong> and <strong style="outline: none 0px;">gave you Top Ten pop stations. They cut off your art</strong> and <strong style="outline: none 0px;">replaced it with endless reality shows</strong> for you to plug into, hoping you would sit quietly by <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; outline: none 0px;">as they ran the world.</strong> We as a society are only as strong as our weakest link. Give ‘em hell, kids. </div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>My favourite part about this is that she's holding a pen. Not a gun or a bomb or a knife. A pen. It's perfect. Really.</i></span></h4>
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