18th Jan 2010
Monday // 1am // 2 years ago
Use your heart. <3
A few days ago, I made an account on a site called formspring. Its a blogging site, just like tumblr, but it’s where people submit questions to you and your answers are posted on your profile.
On January 18th, I received a question. The person wrote it trying to be derogatory but I responded with my heart. I put all my heart into what I wrote. People might think that i said some of the things i said just to get attention, but what they don’t realize is that what I wrote was the god honest truth; not a single lie within.
The follwing is the question I recieved, as well as my heart-felt response.
“Why did you move here to pa? you should of stayed where you came from.”
“First, it’s should have, not should of.
Second, A friend of my moms told us that the person who previously owned our house was moving NC. So the friend of my moms told the previous owner, who was a friend of his, that we wanted to look at the house. When we got here we hadn’t even walked into the house yet and we where in love.
We used to live in the city. The houses were, no joke, 3-4 feet apart. We lived on a major road way. Trucks and cars went by all night long. Pedophiles lived around the corner, around the block, and a couple roads down. I didn’t know that at the time but once I grew older my mom told me. My real dad, whom (thankfully) I have never met in my life, also lived just down the road; again I didn’t know that. IBM, the major computer company, was literally right across the street from my house. I would wake up in the middle of the night to the sounds of people fight, yelling and screaming, cars blasting their their music, cars screeching their brakes, tractor trailers driving by, police sirens, car accidents, and sometimes road work. Honestly, I didn’t realize how much I hated it there until I moved here.
The air is so fresh here. There are no houses around me. I can go for a walk in the woods and not have to worry about someone kidnapping me. The grass here is bigger than 10ftx10ft blocks. When I go to sleep, I hear crickets, not cars. There is privacy here. Its peaceful. The point is I love it here. Yea, I moved away from my friends, but I made a lot more new friends here. I wouldn’t go back if my life depended on it. Maybe to visit some friends, but not to live there.
Third, You think I should have stayed? Well to tell you the truth, If I had not moved here, I truly believe that I would not be alive today.”
I’m sharing this, because I believe that everything someone writes, should come from the heart, whether it’s joyous, somber, angry, or loving. Every word should be exactly what you mean, exactly how you feel. It someone judges it as being wrong, who cares what they think. There is no right or wrong way of writing.
Write with your heart. Speak with your heart. Love with your heart.