love this braid!

i can't wait to try this before work later! look's pretty easy and perfect for fall with a big sweater, skinnies and a nice pair of boots!

souls.

i don't have the adele album (i know), so this morning i was youtubing some of her songs and i saw this comment that someone made about soul mates. i'm guessing it was in return to someone else's comment that perhaps adele and whoever "someone like you," is about will get back together because they are soul mates. the idea of soul mates always interested me, so i decided to do a little research on the origins of the concept. it seems to be an idea that originated in the times of ancient greece. the greeks said that zeus created humans with four arms and legs and two faces, but feared what they could do, so he split them in half. this led to the two people continuously searching for their other half.

other comments about soul mates is that they are much too precious and delicate to ever be with in real life. it has been said that being with a soul mate is too emotionally over-powering and painful to actually be in a relationship with.

most of us see soul mates as a non-platonic relationship, yet soul mates can be with the same gender even if you are heterosexual. it can even be a friend or a parent. society and the media gives us this idea that we must go out and search for our soul mate and that we can never find true happiness without them. isn't that the ultimate goal that you always hear people speak of; marrying their soul mate?

i personally like the idea that a soul mate does not have to be a non-platonic partner, but the idea of marrying your soul mate, that person you are destined to be with forever, does have a sort of exciting air to it. i don't think that you necessarily know if someone is your soul mate until after they're gone. while you're in the moment, you just live and get to experience that beautiful co-existence with another. if you spend too much time thinking about the soul mate thing or if this person is really the "one," you're going to get trapped in those thoughts, and no one will ever match up to your expectations. my advice, just love and appreciate the ones around you for who they are and what they do for you.

(above images of a few souls in my life)

Gen Youth.

check out the amazing site that ceft and company designed for a new foundation called "Gen Youth" to promote awareness on lack of nutrition and childhood obesity!

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we are the same, we are both safe, underneath the sycamore.

as much as i don't want to accept it, it's labor day. fall is just around the corner, and hell (unofficially) starts tomorrow. so in honor of the beginning of fall (unofficially), we're cooking pumpkin pancakes!

just sang my fucking heart out.

i'm a singer. my voice is the one thing that i will (hopefully) always have that consistently makes me happy and can make others happy. i sing everyday, but sometimes i have these moments where i tap into this other realm and just completely unleash. i'm not even myself. after it's over and i wake up from it, my eyes are tearing, my vision is blurry and my chest is scratched. it doesn't happen very often, and i think that it's only happened once in actual public, but i get this euphoric feeling after it. "yoü and i" by gaga has been out for awhile now, but i just started getting into it. i think it's the message behind the song and the power that she puts behind it that made me have such a strong reaction. i can use my own feelings and put it behind her words, and that drives it so much more.