Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

It's been rant posts for the past three posts and I apologize for that. I haven't been having the greatest time with finding things to give advice on, but I promise I will get out of this very strange funk soon.

Romeo and Juliet is my favorite plays of all time and it was written by the ultimate word genius (to me), William Shakespeare. It's just an amazing formation of lovely words about a timeless love that only lasted about three days and left a body count of six people... With that being said, I love the story for the love affair and the gorgeous words (yes I am fangirling over words).
For my school's talent show (which is tomorrow 5/1), I have decided to perform the famous Juliet monologue from the second act (O Romeo, Romeo!) and it's so fun, but believe it or not, that's not my favorite quote or part of the play.
I really love the part in Act 2 when they are at Friar Laurence's cell and they are getting married and he says, "These violent delights have violent ends. And in their triumphs die, like fire and powder. Which, as they kiss, consume..." (Romeo and Juliet Act 2 Scene 6). I first read this quote when I read Twilight (this was over six years ago), but since then I have read Romeo and Juliet thousands of times and I've watched William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet so many times, more than I can count.
Most people don't like Shakespeare because they can't understand the way the plays are written, but personally, they are the most gorgeously written plays ever written. Yes, I can't really understand what is being said, but I can't really understand Spanish or French or Italian either, but that doesn't mean they can't be gorgeous languages for me. William Shakespeare wrote this play in 1597, so his language is different than what we speak today, it's old English.
For my freshman year in high school (2 years ago), I had to read it, which I gladly did because it's AMAZING!!!!!! And my teacher was confused when I knew what was going on in the conversations I had with him after class.

Dancing with the Stars

Okay so this is another rant post again because I can't think of anything else that I would write about. Today I am writing about Dancing with the Stars because I think it's an amazing show and I love the dances.
The Current Season that it's on is season 18.

The line up from the beginning was (the dancers are italicized):

Diana Nyad and Henry Byalikov

Sean Avery and Karina Smirnoff

Billy Dee Williams and Emma Slater

Cody Simpson and Whitney Carson

Drew Carey and Cheryl Burke

Candace Cameron Burke and Mark Ballas

Meryl Davis and Maksim Chmerkovskiy

NeNe Leakes and Tony Dovolani

James Maslow and Peta Murgatroyd

Danica McKellar and Valentin Chmerkovskiy

Amy Purdy and Derek Hough

Charlie White and Sharna Burgess

The first five have either been eliminated or they have withdrawn from the competition.

My favorite couples honestly are Meryl and Maks, Amy and Derek, James and Peta, and Charlie and Sharna.

Last week (4/14) was Disney night and that was amazing because everyone got to hear the songs from the movies that they grew up listening to and that was amazing. The perfect score for that week was James and Peta's contemporary dance to Let It Go from the new movie Frozen.

This week (4/21) was Party Anthem night and there was a lot of old songs from like the '90's and '80's and '70's even, but few from this time and the 2000s too. This week the perfect score was Meryl and Maks's tango to Feel So Close by Calvin Harris.


Now this next dance didn't get a perfect score, but just watch it, Tony can loose his shirt like Antonio Banderas can tie his hair up (said by my dad).

Next week is Latin night and the guest judge is Ricky Martin and I can't wait to watch it with my parents. :) <3 :3

The Great Gatsby Movie

Okay so, this isn't really an advice post, but more of a rant post and if you pay attention I will rant sometimes about something that I feel like ranting about.

So two weeks ago, in English class we finished reading The Great Gatsby which is honestly the best book I've ever been forced to read (a class mandated book) and I do not like any books that I've been forced to read, but I loved it to death because I'm really an old soul in a new body and often times I wish that I was born like 90 years before because I love the style and the music, but then again I don't like how women were treated and how they had not as much freedoms as we do now.
In the movie that came out last year (2013), which I really enjoyed and thought it was a very good movie and the soundtrack was done well for what it was. Most of the people in my class, however, didn't like the soundtrack although they said that the movie was done well. I mean I am a traditionalist and most times I would be cussing out a movie for messing with classic time period music that I enjoyed and I would swear never to listen to that music because it was butchered, but not this time. What I mean by that is that I think the remixes of songs and the up-tempo songs that they put in the movie was fantastic (maybe it's because I listened to the soundtrack over and over before ever even seeing the movie). I even read up on the soundtrack and how the songs came about and I found that to be so fascinating because I found out that most of the artists (like Will i am) were asked to put songs like The Charleston into their songs so that they sounded more like the music of the time, but I agree that the music isn't traditional to the era, but that's okay because the directer probably thought if he put the traditional songs it wouldn't appeal to the larger crowd and that's okay because that was his choice to make and he just happened to do an amazing job at that choice.
Furthermore the casting could have been better at times, but it was overall fantastic. I love Leo DiCaprio and Toby Maguire in other movies that they've starred in. I have watched Spider-man and that's the only other TM movie that I've watched which is sad, but with Leo, I've watched so many of his movies, The Titanic, Romeo & Juliet (which I know every line to and can talk along with them), Shutter Island, The Departed, The Aviator, Inception (There's more, but the list can go on forever plus I don't remember, but I know there's more. My mother loves Leonardo DiCaprio movies so she started me off watching them at a young age as she often does with so many of her favorite actors).
The point about the casting that I was trying to make, however, was that I found it to be amazing although some might disagree with me and that's okay because that's their own opinion and they are certainly entitled to it as I am with mine. I just thought the girls were perfect for their characters because the characters reminded me of what I pictured them as when I reading the book, I mean Myrtle was Marilyn Monroe/Jessica Rabbit worthy (that's the presence she brought to the movie and book). Also the guy who played Tom was a good fit because I wanted nothing more than to punch Tom in the face the whole time I was watching the movie and reading the book because I hated the character in the book and movie.
Also I have this way of falling in love with fictional characters and if there is an enemy, in any way, to that character I will end up hating that enemy with a fiery fiery passion and I often will fantasizing about ways that enemy can die (I can go to a very very dark place sometimes and I've come to terms with that fact of myself). That can be because the author of the novel has this way of brilliantly writing the book where you are just absorbed into the book like Fitzgerald does, or it could be because the actors are that good with conveying their characters to the camera.

I feel like a Gatsby fan girl with this rant, but Gatsby is sooooo amazing like no one understands. This past weekend I found it on Xfinity On Demand and I started playing it and my family would sit and watch it with me then they'd get up and leave and then come back and the whole time I just had figurative stars in my eyes and they were so very confused that when I would look at them, I would just respond to their puzzled faces with "It makes more sense if you have read the book". Then my brother asked me what a mistress was so I had to explain it to him and he's 13 almost 14, it was kind of awkward.

Babies and Their Intuition

Babies are super intuitive and they actually seem to know more about things that normal adults wouldn't be so inclined to know or they could know if they just applied themselves more, but babies seem to have this natural instinct that adults seem to loose when they age.
I research a lot, more than most kids my age I would think, and one of the things I research most is, babies. The reason is they fascinate me and it amazes me how much they know that we take advantage of because we think of ourselves and the age gap that we have the superiority and the knowledge that they don't when really they have knowledge that we don't, that we grow out of and pass off as childish.
I like researching this because I consider myself to be spiritual, not religious, but that is because of my grandmother, and I find myself to be intuitive, but not as much as any other semi-adult. I have a 3 year old brother and he seems to know a lot, to see a lot that we don't.

For instance, I believe that they can see ghosts and beings that aren't of our dimension (maybe you're reading this right now and you think I am a complete psycho for believing in these things, but honestly I find it completely normal to my own character so I don't really care what you think of me).
The reason why I think this, is because my mom has this piece of artwork from a friend that had passed years ago and then when we moved my brother would always be talking to someone, it seemed like, whenever he was by that piece of artwork and we all didn't know why he was talking to himself, until my parents kind of pieced it together and just assumed he was talking to the friend.

With saying that I believe in spirits doesn't mean that I think that they can do harm, well that most of them don't do harm, but there are some spirits that can do harm to people, but not in the sense of the horror movie spirits and ghosts. No, I believe that we all have protector angelic type of spirits, ones that watch over us and bless us by helping us with all of the good in our lives and I believe you can feel this presence like you can also feel the black tentacles of the evil spirits. I just wanted to take a little excerpt to explain what I believe so it makes more sense than before.


So maybe you don't believe the way I do and honestly I don't care if you do or if you don't, I'm not asking you to believe and certainly if you do, great, or you don't, it doesn't matter.

The Great Gatsby

So this week we finished The Great Gatsby and I have something to say about something relating to that.

Fitzgerald had Gatsby put Daisy on a super angelic pedestal and that frustrates me because I realize a lot of guys do this.
Guys will often put girls on pedestals to where the girls can't possibly meet those standards and the guys that put them there, they're fantasizing about about that girl, but an overly perfect version of themselves that makes them think they are competing with themselves for attention.
When guys do this it's difficult and frustrating because we feel like there's always something that will disappoint them because there will be those moments where they realize that the fantasy isn't like the reality and those moments are moments that'll hurt the most for the girls.
The girls will always wonder if what they do is right and what the guys want, but they will never actually know if what they do is what the guys think when they think of the angelic perfection that is "them".

I'm so sorry about the very short post tonight and I promise that next week's post will be much much longer than this. I just feel like I am the one who needs to be receiving advice versus giving advice.
This is one of those rare moments in time where this'll happen, but I'm just not really in the advice-giving mood.

Music

Once again, no messages or emails asking for advice.
Okay well, a lot of teenagers use music to help them solve problems or even just for a pick me up or a stress reliever, I know I do.
Music just helps because most of the time people feel like they connect with the music because most of the time a song can come on and it describes a situation that someone's in perfectly.
I know I said teenagers, but really everyone does this. Music is everyone's escape from what ever is happening in their life and I have noticed how some types of songs may mean something different for a person's mood, but with that being said there are people that have different likes and taste and whether or not they are listening to a specific thing may just be because that is what they are into.
I am going to try and decipher the different song/music types for you so that when you hear someone listening to it you can know what mood they could be in.
(This may become raunchy, possibly just a little, but not too much)
The Sad Love Song
The sad love song is what people could be listening to right after a break up (the period where they just feel the need to cry and beat themselves up because the relationship didn't work out because of something that they did) or it might be because they miss their SO (significant other) because that SO is on a trip or far away from them and all they want is for him/her to be with them.
The Angry Love Song
This is for the person who just got out of the sad love song phase of their breakup. This type of song basically is the anti love song and that being what it is helps with the healing process of  their break up. Or people could listen to this type of love song when they hate their SO for who knows what.

The Regular Love Song
This type of song signifies new love. The bubbly feeling you get with a really happy relationship or with a brand new one when you're still in the Honeymoon phase (some couples never get out of this phase).
The Angry at the Whole World Song

This type of song signifies that something bad just happened in their life and possibly they just want to be left alone with their music because they feel like that's the only thing that can help them feel normal.
The Self Pick Me Up Song
This type of song is when people feel great about themselves and the lyrics in the song only make them feel better about themselves.

These are the main types of songs and if someone's out of their normal self and listening to something that they don't normally listen to then you have to ask yourself, what's wrong, and how can you help fix it?

How to Find Out Whether or Not Someone Truly Loves You

This post is from someone who asked how to find out when someone truly loves you because this person's last relationship was kind of a long distance relationship and every time they ask someone out, that person always turn them down, so they have turned to me for help on what they should do.
This is the first time I have used names on this blog, but from now on, when I have someone send me in a situation, I am going to give them a name, or really, their situation. So for this person, their name is TrueLove. 
Okay, so for anyone who knows me in person, they know I am such a Disney freak and for this post it's going to come up a lot with true love and how you know. I'm not ashamed of being a Disney freak because I feel like Disney is for everyone and honestly, everyone needs a little magic in their lives.
So to answer TrueLove's question: what should they do?
This may seem like an easy question to answer, but honestly it's not because even if you don't think you're doing anything wrong, you may be doing something wrong and that is a very quick fix if you know what it is and how to fix it.
True love is something that you just know when you feel it no matter if you're doing something wrong or not because if it's truly meant to be both parties will know automatically. It's magical when you find it and absolutely perfect because it's something of a fairytale.
With that being said, true love doesn't always come with young age, but sometimes you have to wait half your life to find your true love. That is the same thing with truly loving someone because you feel it in your heart that it's right and nothing can second guess you.
If you truly love someone and they don't feel the same way, they may just not be the right person for you, so hold out for that perfect fit, your true love because that is the person who will truly love you for you.
If you keep getting rejected, then maybe, you should just not keep asking until you can figure out whether or not they feel sorta the same way about you and you can do that by asking around, but not in a creepy stalker way, but sometimes you'll just have to go middle school on the situation and then those tactics will help you get closer to your true love.