To the Girl Who Needed Saving
Start writing a post
Lifestyle

To the Girl Who Needed Saving

There's a little magic in the best of us...

80
To the Girl Who Needed Saving
Themes.com: Amazing Wallpaper Collections

To the one that was always a bit too passionate, a little too idealistic for her own good. To the one that could be wild, reckless and careless for the sake of a fun time. The one that learned to love deeply and fully, throwing all of her heart into everything she did, but would never see half of that heart returned. To the one that spent her nights buzzing with ideas and escaping to worlds of promise and possibility in her dreams. You expect so much in this one life of ours.

You wish to live life to its fullest extent, and yet it always falls short of your expectations. Because after all of those nights you spent wide awake in your bed thinking and dreaming with eyes wide open, you have created a world of your own. You have created a world in that eccentric mind of yours so finely detailed that no reality could ever fulfill these dreams. There you have found wistful romance, untrodden forests and earnest companionship. There you have seen a future of travel, spontaneity and limitless potential. There you have felt everything so deeply, that you wake up in the morning with a warm pain in your chest and a soft smile upon your face. Here you have found mediocrity.

You're seen as naïve, out of touch and childish maybe.

You're a vagabond, a drifter, a rolling stone, a romanticist, a wanderer, a renegade.

You dance spontaneously, you speak your mind and you experience with open arms. You know how to have a good time, you know how to let loose but you're often mistaken for lacking depth. Can they take you seriously? Sometimes you lose your way as you wrestle between reality and fiction. You laugh when it may be inappropriate, you test extremes that frighten your peers and you wander aimlessly. You're restless, discontent and often unruly. Because no matter how hard you wreck your brain you just cannot seem to fathom how life cannot be like the movies. Where could these ideas of love and friendship and adventure emerge from if at one point they were not real?

You're an optimist, an idealist, an escapist, a radical, a visionary, a dreamer.

But they say you will mature with age.

They say that time will force you to shed these dreams, and trash the escape acts. They feed you over the counter prescriptions and diagnose you with ADHD as a means of justifying your habitual distraction. They encourage you with words of potential and plead with you to focus on the plan, yet you see no purpose in their cries. You find no passion in your textbook. And you feel no happiness amongst the crowds of rational people. Something within you screams for more. There simply must be more.

They say you're the one who needs saving. The one who always needs a rock to ground you from your flighty tendencies. Yet there is something magical in this fantasized reality of yours, something lost upon the masses. There is depth and imagination and pools of curiosity. There is craving and indulgence. There is a raging spark of something exceptional within you that refuses to be silenced. It energizes each dream and friendship and experience. It causes you to question everything around you. It defies norms and it gravitates towards challenges.

They say you're the one who needs saving. And yet you may be just crazy enough to transcend your fiction into a reality, to create your ideas into products. You just may be wild enough to stand amongst the greats that too were silenced, and struggled with worlds of words unsaid. There is something captivating in your spark, even enviable.

But they say you're the one who needs saving.

Report this Content
This article has not been reviewed by Odyssey HQ and solely reflects the ideas and opinions of the creator.
Student Life

Waitlisted for a College Class? Here's What to Do!

Dealing with the inevitable realities of college life.

60734
college students waiting in a long line in the hallway
StableDiffusion

Course registration at college can be a big hassle and is almost never talked about. Classes you want to take fill up before you get a chance to register. You might change your mind about a class you want to take and must struggle to find another class to fit in the same time period. You also have to make sure no classes clash by time. Like I said, it's a big hassle.

This semester, I was waitlisted for two classes. Most people in this situation, especially first years, freak out because they don't know what to do. Here is what you should do when this happens.

Keep Reading...Show less
a man and a woman sitting on the beach in front of the sunset

Whether you met your new love interest online, through mutual friends, or another way entirely, you'll definitely want to know what you're getting into. I mean, really, what's the point in entering a relationship with someone if you don't know whether or not you're compatible on a very basic level?

Consider these 21 questions to ask in the talking stage when getting to know that new guy or girl you just started talking to:

Keep Reading...Show less
Lifestyle

Challah vs. Easter Bread: A Delicious Dilemma

Is there really such a difference in Challah bread or Easter Bread?

39465
loaves of challah and easter bread stacked up aside each other, an abundance of food in baskets
StableDiffusion

Ever since I could remember, it was a treat to receive Easter Bread made by my grandmother. We would only have it once a year and the wait was excruciating. Now that my grandmother has gotten older, she has stopped baking a lot of her recipes that require a lot of hand usage--her traditional Italian baking means no machines. So for the past few years, I have missed enjoying my Easter Bread.

Keep Reading...Show less
Adulting

Unlocking Lake People's Secrets: 15 Must-Knows!

There's no other place you'd rather be in the summer.

960576
Group of joyful friends sitting in a boat
Haley Harvey

The people that spend their summers at the lake are a unique group of people.

Whether you grew up going to the lake, have only recently started going, or have only been once or twice, you know it takes a certain kind of person to be a lake person. To the long-time lake people, the lake holds a special place in your heart, no matter how dirty the water may look.

Keep Reading...Show less
Student Life

Top 10 Reasons My School Rocks!

Why I Chose a Small School Over a Big University.

202409
man in black long sleeve shirt and black pants walking on white concrete pathway

I was asked so many times why I wanted to go to a small school when a big university is so much better. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure a big university is great but I absolutely love going to a small school. I know that I miss out on big sporting events and having people actually know where it is. I can't even count how many times I've been asked where it is and I know they won't know so I just say "somewhere in the middle of Wisconsin." But, I get to know most people at my school and I know my professors very well. Not to mention, being able to walk to the other side of campus in 5 minutes at a casual walking pace. I am so happy I made the decision to go to school where I did. I love my school and these are just a few reasons why.

Keep Reading...Show less

Subscribe to Our Newsletter

Facebook Comments