Luna Lovegood

I was so excited when I was "sorted" into Ravenclaw house on Pottermore.com, because my favorite character from the Harry Potter series, Luna Lovegood, was in that house. Luna is my favorite character because she acts and dresses the way she likes and doesn't care what people think of her. I strive to be like her in that way. Luna is one of my role models. My favorite quote of hers is, "I think I'll just go down and get some pudding and wait for it all to turn up . . . it always does in the end."

Drama

If you are a girl who has been through (or is in) Middle School you know what drama is. "Well, she said . . . and he said . . ." Gossip. Rumours. Some people try and start rumours (to be the center of attention). Others try and stop the rumours, because they know how hurtful they can be and how wrong they are. If a person is not there to defend themselves, don't talk about them. "Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tonge of a Gossip," (Richard Steele). "Gossip is called gossip, because it's not always the truth," (Justin Timberlake). Even though it might be hard to be the person who stops the gossip, it is the right thing to do. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (the movie), Albus Dumbledore said to Harry, "soon we will have to choose between what is right, and what is easy." I've also read that "what is right is not always popular, what is popular is not always right." One way to avoid drama is to hang out around people who don't like it either. Two of my best friends love our theatre class, but steer clear of the drama that goes on in our class.

You Are Beautiful!

. . . You are amazing, there's no need to hide. As the boys of One Direction say (sing), "you don't know you're beautiful, that's what makes you beautiful." You might not think so, but there is something about you that makes you special. You just have to let that something shine. In the Nickelodeon original movie Rags, one song says, "Sometimes you must fly so that you can be free . . . look at me now, I'm starting to be stronger there's no time to slow down, no, oh, I'm touching the clouds, I'm flying high and higher, I'm not trying to come down."  Even when people tell you that you're not special, "don't you worry you're pretty little mind, people throw rocks at things that shine," (Taylor Swift - Ours).

Friendship

Friendship is a wonderful, sometimes rare, thing. A friend is someone who you share little jokes with and someone who you can have a good fight and make up with. A friend can make you smile when you're about to cry, who goes to you for advice, someone who does something just to make you laugh. A friend is someone who gives you the first bite of their Reese's pie, because you've never tried it before. A friend is a person who understands you and does anything to make you feel better. A friend is someone who isn't jealous of you even when you have success and they do not. A friend doesn't have to be all these things. You might not have a friend exactly like this, but one day we all will.

Dreams

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." My all time favorite quote from Walt Disney. Dreams . . . Why do we have them? I can attempt to answer that: we have dreams to set goals for ourselves. Without goals, we would not have the ambition to make anything of ourselves. We would all be the same, not individuals. On that note, all our dreams are different. In the movie, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Professor Dumbledore tells Professor Snape that "in dreams we enter a world entirely our own, we can swim in the deepest ocean, or fly over the highest cloud." Everyone has a different dream. We all want to see them come true, but we have to work hard to make them a reality for us.

Welcome!

Hi! This is a blog about being yourself and doing what you want even when its different from what others do. A quote I have read is "Be who you are and you will set the world ablaze," - Saint Catherine of Siena. This blog is also about courage, being able to stand up to your friends as well as your enemies. With that thought I would like to give you one of my favorite quotes: "It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends,"  - Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (written by J.K. Rowling). Although, you don't have to be fearless to have courage. Nelson Mandela once said, "I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” Sometimes it takes courage to find yourself. . .