The top ten titles if my life was a teen romance novel

1. You're so Instagrammable

2. No Pants, No Bra, No Problem

3. My Life and Humiliating Times

4. I Just Said What? and Other Reasons my Mouth Should Have an Off Switch

5. Beneath the Bitch Face

6. The World is my Struggle Bus

7. You Loathe Me and I Loathe You

8. I Never Learned How to Pump Gas, and Other White Girl Concerns

9. I'd Rather be Eating Frozen Yogurt

10. No Sauce, Please- How Foreign Men Shaped My Life

This would most likely be an accurate book cover. Comment your favorite title!

Leaving on a Jet Plane

Hello from a plane to the rest of my life. Do you ever find yourself going somewhere and not even fully understand why you are going? I believe it begins with the concept that we can never predict the future, that we never really know where we are going or where we will end up. We just act from the desire to find inner fulfillment and sometimes I don't even really think we know why we crave what we do. I just read the most profound sentence in the book I'm reading. It said "Maybe he didn't live in the past, but the past lived in him." I think that the past lives in us until we don't remember it anymore, and even then we will feel the way we feel and just don't remember why that is. We are made up of all the events of our life that shaped us into the person we have become, and while often it is difficult to acknowledge we become all that we were, it happens regardless. I suppose at some point I made the decision that I wanted to leave my life. So that's what I'm doing. As it is written, You must give up the life you had planned in order to live the one that is waiting for you.

Some of My Favorite Books

I'm an avid reader, and while people in my life recognize that, they don't realize that I read about three books a week on average. Which if you calculate that out considering I've been reading since I was five, is prodigious amount of books. I know when a book is poorly written, and I know when they leave me with the feeling that I need to share a passage with every person I've ever met and that my life will never be quite the same. Books get through to me more than anything else ever will.

The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Sometimes It Happens by Lauren Barnholdt
Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
Outliers by Malcom Gladwell
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Amy and Rodger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
The Truth about Forever by Sarah Dessen
The Fault in Our Stars by John Greene
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
The Golden Years by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Candid caption of my favorite way to spend time