ABOUT ME
• Hey there. I'm Laura. How're you, love? Let's see...
• Music is my
life.
• I ♥ SING ♥ everything from classical literature to opera to Broadway show tunes.
• I also play violin; I've been playing since I was eight or nine years old.
• Recently, I picked up piano. I'm still figuring the whole black and ivory thing, but I'm getting there. .
• Broadway musicals rock my socks hard core; can't get enough of them.
• I enjoy discussing the political affairs of today. I'm a democrat, but that doesn't mean that I'm not open to other views.
• History is another one of my loves. I'm like a walking encyclopedia.
• I'm big into my Italian heritage. Guardi fuori, questa ragazza italiana ha un temperamento. That doesn't mean I'm not proud of my Irish, German, and Austrian roots however.
• I'm a bull Taurus, that is.
• Give me a box of canolies and I'm yours.
• I am a slave to academia, meaning that succeeding in school is very important to me.
• Ergo, I'm going to go to a good college with an excellent music and academic program. NAZARETH '11
• I LOVE Europe! I miss my AMA loves!
• I'm a generally cheerful, bubbly, goofy person.
• Someday, you'll see me on stage or on a record shelf. Keep your eyes and hears open.
• I'm a book worm, whenever I get the chance to read a book outside of my busy schedule.
• My friends and family are very important to me.
• I love beig a goofball. Ask my friends.
. Oh, yeah. HEY STEVE!
19.7.06
9:19 PM
My old neighbor died recently. Granted, she has been sick for while but her passing is shocking. As a family, we went to her wake and gave our condolencees to her family.
And then it hit me.
I looked around the little chapel of the funeral home and saw all of my old neighbors again. It was strange that such a sad event brought us all together again but what was evenstranger was how everyone looked older. Gray hair, slower movements, quiter gazes; I couldn't believe the changes in how little, almost five years, time has past.
I'm sure they felt the same about my brother and I. All those compliments about how much we've grown and how nice it is to know that we're doing well made me think about how time passes so quickly. "Oh I haven't seen oyu since you were ye high", etc.
The fact that things change so quickly and that time never stops frightens me. I wonder where all the time has gone. Some of childhood memories are beginning to slip away. When I was younger, I used to be able to instantly remember one summer afternoon in the kiddie pool with my brother and the neighborhood children. Now, I have to look at pictures in order to stimulate the memory, which is a little fuzzy. Life doesn't wait up for you, does it?
I sort of feel like an old lady talking about this yet I know I'm so youn and people keep telling me that I have so much of my life ahead. Still, however much of the life that I lead is not long enough. Our time on this planet is so limited. We're only reminded of this as we age or perhaps if we fall into illness, so we, as humans, take it for granted. So, the question is, how do we solve the problem? Do we "go with the flow" and relax? Or do we try to put our whole life in a giant time capsule, you know like the ones you made in kindergarten to look back at when you were in eighth grade? Perhaps, there is a way that we can freeze time and preserve and savor all the sweet moments and just banish the bad memories. Or would that be a selfish effort to play God and decdide our time for ourselves?
I'm not sure that if I can give any better advice than the cliche, "Live life to the fullest".
