This is my third tattoo, but probably the one that means the most to me. This is a quote from Lady Gaga's "Dance in the Dark" song and it speaks to me. Music has been an integral part of my life since I was a little kid and continues to be. On more than one occasion, music has saved my life...whether that was directly or indirectly. I feel like I owe everything I have in life to music and can't wait to see what it has in store for me in the future.
My friend and I both support an organization called "To Write Love On Her Arms" which is an organization that raises awareness for self-injury, suicide, depression, and helps those struggling with these things get the treatment they need. I personally have lived this nightmare, spending a large part of high school struggling with self-injury and depression. It's not an easy road to go down in the first place, but coming back is harder than anything. My battle drug on for years and I'm happy to say that I have been cut free for over three years. But the ...
I talked to my brother today. He's deployed overseas and will be until next year. I miss him so much! We're 2 years apart and as close as brother and sister can be. He's my protector, soldier, and best friend. I just wish he were home.
I miss my brother...he's deployed. It really hit me today that he's really not here and he's been gone almost 2 whole weeks. I'm so proud of him though because he's doing something he wanted to do. Just pray he comes home safe. I love him.
This song is for my Momma. She has given me everything in my 21 years of life, sacrificing everything for me and my 2 brothers. I know that no matter what was happening in my life, she would be there for me to make all things better. When I was 16, she and my biological father divorced and he ceased to be a part of my life, but she raised me and my brothers. She worked 2 jobs to keep us in the home we grew up in and to keep us healthy. She is the best woman I have ...
This is my nephew Tristan just a few days after he was born. He's just over 3 months old now and the light of my life! Every time I get to see him and his mom, I just can't help but be happy while taking care of that little guy. He got incredibly sick and was hospitalized at 1 month old, so I spent many a night up there with him and his mom because his dad had to work an hour away. I love this little guy so much and would do anything for him to make ...
Thank you! My family and I are happier now than we have been in years.
Love is something that isn't easy for me to come by. My parents divorced when I was 16-years-old and everything I had once known in my life fell through the floor. I honestly wondered how love could survive something like divorce or an entire family falling apart. For years, I wondered why God would do something like that to me and my mother, who is the best person in the world. I spent a lot of time pondering if I could ever allow myself to be loved again by anyone. But, God provided the miracle of a wonderful mother ...
Y'all are TOO cute! I hope I find someone as wonderful for me as you are to Jenna.
This would be Alice and Bella from New Moon. Even though they're polar opposites, they're best friends to a tea. This picture reminds me of myself and my best friend Bridgitt. She is definitely Bella and I'm Alice because of our personalities. We live over 1000 miles apart and have never met in person, but I feel like she knows me better than most anyone that lives right next to me. I can tell her things that no one else understands and she does. She balances me out when I'm too hyper and makes me laugh ...
I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. It's never easy to suffer a loss like this, especially so young. My heart goes out to you. I lost one of my good friends my junior year of high school to a car accident. I remember how lost I felt without seeing her face everyday, but it does get better. It might not seem like it now, but time does heal a lot of things. My prayers and thoughts go out to you and their families during this difficult time.
Thank you so much! And I definitely appreciate prayers since he and I have both grown up believing in God. We have one younger brother as well, so we're all pretty close. It's just weird not seeing him everyday like we're all used to. We're getting through it though and I've promised both of my brothers that when we're all together again next year, we're going on a vacation. And I know that God does not put us through trials for no reason. We've all known that our entire lives since we ...
This would be my brother and me this past summer. He is 19 and I'm 21, but we are twins in almost every other way except age. In June of last year, he went into the United States Army and for the first time in my life, I understood what it meant to be truly scared of losing someone. He is being deployed to Iraq March 18th of this year and we had to say goodbye the other day for at least 9 months. It was so difficult for me and I cried so much after he left. Considering ...
And the tears are flowin! This is so beautiful and perfect beyond words for the expression of love for someone else. Jenna is a lucky girl to have found you. I hope to find my someone.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to ...
Love is...well that's just it, it is. But, even more than that, love heals. For the better part of my high school years, I self-injured because of all the emotional stress I was going through with my parents' divorce and a lot of other things. I stopped during my senior year and have been cut-free for over 3 years now. It was the love of a friend that saved me from myself. She held my hand through the long nights when I cried myself to sleep over at her house, promised me she would never abandon me (which ...
I just want to say how incredibly BLESSED I am to have the girls in this video in my life. They are my rocks, my comforts, and the ones I run to when the rest of the world sucks. Right then and there, they drop everything and listen to what I have to say and let me cry on their shoulders. Friendship is what has saved me over the past seven years of my life and continues to do so each and every day. I love these girls more than life can say and pray that they are parts of ...
Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is putting someone else's needs above your own, just as my mom has done for me my whole life. I love you mom, for all you have done for me my entire life, raising me and the boys as a single mother when we were teenagers, teaching me to keep my heart open, even after the heartache of divorce in our family, and promising me that everything will be alright when I felt like it wouldn't. You were always my rock and supporter, making sure I was encouraged all the way ...
My brother is a soldier, only 19 years old and will be deployed to Iraq within the next month or so. He and I are close as we are only 2 years apart, me being the older of the two of us. Reading Dear John tore my heart to pieces because I know the pain and heartache these soldiers go through, having watched my brother change from a boy to a man. I've also witnessed a friend lose her husband because of war when he came home not the man he left as. But I do know that love ...
Love is...well, it just is. It is the most basic concept in the world that we know from birth. The love we have for our mothers and family who care for us that spreads to our first friendships in elementary school and onto our lifelong relationships. Love is what saves us and what makes us who we are, through our relationships with those we love. Love is what saved me. I went through a lot of things growing up and my best friend in the world, Dara, saved me from myself and from the world I grew up in ...