Megan Hopkins

MEGAN.

It’s great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone,
but what about when someone doesn’t need a shoulder?
What if they need the arms or something like that?
You can’t just sit there and put everybody’s lives
ahead of yours and think that counts as love.
You just can’t. You have to do things.

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This is one of my favourite quotes. When I read it, it struck something in me. It's the change I want to be, but it's not a change I've made. This is a perfect example.

MySpace used to be a great way of getting to know how the people you knew truly saw themselves, and how they wanted to be presented to the rest of society. The "About Me" was their need to qualify themselves to other people, and present who they wished they were. Now nobody uses myspace, and I don't know who anybody is. Or who anybody wants to be.

If anybody ever read anything I wrote, or bothered to read into anything I say, they probably still wouldn't know who I was, but they'd know who I wanted to be. And why I wanted to be that person.

Are you still reading into this enough to care for what I want to be? Cool. And probably thank you.

I don't have high expectations of people, or of myself. I have dreams, sure, but I don't have unachievable goals. I am not a forward thinker, I am not striving for very much. But there is one thing that I do strive to be: a good friend. Because for as much effort as it takes, it's not all that hard to achieve. Though it's not as easy as giving up, it is so easy to keep trying. And at the end of the day, when you still fail at maintaining a steady friendship, after all the effort you put in - atleast you know that you're something that person is not.

And that is pretty much all I ever want to be. Something you're not.

I never learnt to be like all the kids that I've met in my whole life.
I learnt from all of the decisions that they made, to never ever turn out like them.

And that's a promise I'll keep.