'Life.'

"I'm not a perfect person and I have made my fair share of mistakes and stupid decisions. I've broken hearts and I've had mine broken, I've pushed people out of my life and regretted it - I've also pushed people out of my life and been thankful for it. I'm a human being on this path that we call 'life' and learning from all the things that once held me back. All I can do now is move forward & learn from the past."

- Ingrid.

Sometimes other people can sum up things in words better than you could yourself, gotta love quotes.

Laura.

Song: Run by Thriving Ivory

Coincidences

As it's been pretty grim, rainy weather this summer I've been watching quite a few films to pass the time. I watched 'Sliding Doors' a couple of weeks ago, it's quite an old film but it has a really important message...

Everything that happens is a coincidence, and we can't predict what's going to happen when we make certain choices or know what would have happened if we'd done something differently. The film shows that even small things could change our lives - without us even realising and sometimes even if we make the wrong decision somehow things can still end up at the same point as they would have if we'd made the right choice. I would recommend anyone who doesn't mind watching slightly older films to watch Sliding Doors because it does make you think about life differently. It made me realise that bad things are always going to happen, but you shouldn't regret making the choices you made or the actions you have taken because it will be the right decision in the end. Some things are meant to happen, others just aren't...

Laura.

Song: Someone Like You by Adele

The Dreaded Results!

So finally after weeks of waiting, I got my GCSE results.

Maths: A
History: A*
Art: A
Tech: A*
RE: A
English Language: A
English Literature: B
Core Science: A*
Additional Science: A
ICT: Distinction (Equivalent of 2 A's I think?)

Firstly, I am amazed at my maths result because I seriously thought I'd only just passed that exam let alone get an A. My teacher was terrible and everything I knew for that exam is all down to my Dad helping me. I'm very pleased with my other results, except I would have liked to get an A in Literature, but that's just my perfectionist ways... Everybody I know has done really well in their GCSE's as well. Congratulations :')

The hard work paid off.

Laura.

Song: Marching On by OneRepublic

Holding Back

"You never lose by loving, you always lose by holding back."
Recently some things made me realise that you have to throw yourself into situations while you can - before it's too late and before the opportunities have passed you by. You can hold back all your life because of being cautious or 'safe' but it's never really going to get you very far. You'll miss out, you'll lose. If your try most things when you can, even if it doesn't go how you planned at least your tried and you'll have gotten further in life than if you'd never had a go in the first place.

Laura.

Song: Jealousy by Will Young

Thoughts from Places...

Bournemouth.

I visited Bournemouth for a few days this week. It was good, and surprisingly the weather was pretty good too. The hotel was quite old, but not the dusty, rotting sort of old - the type of old that gives a place character and history. I guess you could describe it as a large time capsule, protecting it's aging contents from modern times outside the building. In a lounge on the ground floor you could see where people had carved their initials into the wood paneling on the walls. A tiny piece of them marked and buried within history and time. We did the normal things you do on a British beach holiday... It was nice to spend time with family for a while and eat too much simply because you can because after all - you're on holiday, also it was kinda cool to not have to think about anything in particular. We hardly ever have time to just sit and think for a few hours with only our own minds for company or enjoy the people around us without distractions, and car journeys are the perfect time to think and make the most of the people around you. If you ever find yourself faced with a long car journey and you are on a motorway, just like I was, consider how many people there actually is on the motorway; all of them going to different places, all of them thinking different things and all of them sharing the same piece of road to reach their final destination.

As people we have this sort of obsession to travel, to be anywhere else but where we live. We want to see new things, have new experiences and see new people. But as I approached my small hometown after queuing to get off the M1 I realised that sometimes we have to leave where we feel the safest, the place that we know like the back of our hand and the place we call home because if you stayed in one place for all your life you would miss out a lot. You can't ever bring a sea view inland. There's a different atmosphere in a holiday town that only exists there with all the other people who are there for the same reason you are, it's a connection that brings all of us together - to create memories that will last a lifetime. Just like those people who carved their initials into the wooden paneling, they wanted to be a memory, to live on just like the memories they made while they were in Bournemouth however many years ago.


Laura.

Song: Ghosts by Gabrielle Aplin

Results Day

So results day is only a few weeks away now.
Some people are really nervous about it, others don't really give a damn - personally I'm okay about the whole thing; not because I'm one hundred percent sure I've done amazingly well in everything just because it's done now and there's nothing I can do to change the results I'll get in that envelope on results day. Of course I hope I've done well but at the end of the day who doesn't? What happens, happens. I'll be putting my results up on here when I get them - good or bad. Fingers crossed for everybody who is getting results this month - alevels or gcses!

Aslong as you do yourself proud, it doesn't matter about what anybody else gets.

Laura.

Song: Bubble Wrap by McFly