Wow. It's been a long time since I've "blogged." Like Emily I used to be a LiveJournal person, and also as she says I blogged about such mundane things as things not going my way, people not paying attention, blahblahblah. It embarrasses me to look back on those posts. I was a silly teenager. Well, I still am one, technically, almost only one more year of teenage..hood.

I don't have much to say, just thought I would introduce myself.

I've just finished re-reading all of the Harry Potter books start to finish. It took two weeks, because I decided I should probably interact with the outside world at intervals. I miss Harry Potter all over again. How is it that an imaginary world can be so captivating? I love almost everything about these books, and they bring me a lot of comfort. Why, I have no idea. Maybe because I grew up reading them, and every time I read one I can escape. It's so nice to escape. That's probably why I like theatre. You can be anyone you want, and it doesn't matter if your own life is hopelessly boring or frustrating or what have you. I found a few quotes recently, so I guess I'll share them. Two are about dancing, but I like to substitute any kind of performing :p

"For all the work dancers do during the day, the reason we do it is that short time onstage. Nothing I've experienced in life is like it, and that scares me. When I can't dance, what will ever make me feel so alive, so in the moment? When I once told a friend that I didn't pray, he said, "Your performance is your prayer. That's what you're doing up there." He was right. Whatever God is, I feel close to God when I perform."
-Kyle Froman

"I dance and perform because it's the only time that I feel like I can be myself. It's ironic, because when you're onstage you aren't being yourself, but the world completely shuts out and you can just live for what's going on right then. When I step on a stage, it's like finding true peace."
-Spencer Liff

And now some quotes from Albus Dumbledore. Because he's scarily wise. But then again, he's fictional.

"After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." -Albus Dumbledore

"You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him." -Albus Dumbledore

"Trivial hurts, tiny human accidents ... These are of no more significance than the scurryings of ants to the wide universe."
-Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I think the first quote by Dumbledore is really exciting. I really had never thought of what happens after you die as being an "adventure," but honestly, who knows what happens? It could be anything...

And finally, My favorite:

"Tell me one last thing," said Harry. "Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?"
Dumbledore beamed at him.
"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"

I don't care if the world of Harry Potter is in my head, because in that messed up place it is real.