Twisted time

Now think about the time like it was a pool. Think about if you hated yourself enough and time travel was a possability. Now this is very weird of me to think of but..... If your future self went back in time to kill you're past self during the present (your present not your future selfs present) then would you see yourself die twice or would you not exsist to see yourself die? Then if you didn't exsist to see yourself die then how could you kill yourself? In my opinion you would see your past self die and then your present and future self would stop exsisting altogether AFTER you commited the act. This, of course, is my opinion... Why don't you tell me yours?

The difference between fat and overweight!

"I noticed today something that will help me through the rest of the year in highschool and all my years in college. I noticed that there is a difference between fat and overweight. When someone is being mean they will call you fat, but when you go to the doctors they tell you you're overweight. Why do they use such different words? For a while I believed that whenever I went to the doctor and they said that I was overweight, I thought they were using a nice word just to call me fat. The difference I realized today, is that they're not calling me fat.
Last year in Money and Banking my teacher told me you can't be broke unless you make yourself broke. He said that being broke was a state of mind. You can be poor, but unless you believe yourself to be broke you wont be. Isn't "Fat" and "overweight" the same thing?
Being overweight is a fact! I admit I'm overweight. But I'm not fat! "Fat" is a state of mind! You can't be fat unless you believe you're fat.
There's also one more thing that helps me get through stuff. It's something my mom always told me and it's good for others to know also:
'You have the power to change what you look like. If you think your overweight, then go running. Only you can change that about yourself. Only you have the power to change that about yourself. None of those other people can do it for you. Not the doctors, not the jerks in school, and not even your family. Only you! Your body is yours to deal with, and yours alone.' "

~Danielle Standiford

My Sister and I, The Daughters! (random short stories)

It's not that I hate the people in my school. In fact, my sister and I, are friends with quite a lot of people. We're not popular only because we dont want to be. Popularity always comes with a price. There's the fact that if you're popular everyone expects you to do drugs with them or have alcoholic parties, which isn't cool at all. Then there's the guys who think just because you're popular you'll put out. Sorry, but it's not gonna happen that way. Yes, popularity always comes with a price, which is why my sister and I shun most of the poeple in my school. Not because we hate them, but because we don't want to deal with it.
My sister, the carbon copy of me, has brown hair and eyes that if you look closely you can see green, blue, and brown. Our birth parents? We don't really know who they are, but we love the people who raised us. They're more than anything we could've hoped for. My sister and I both love to read, write, and well....learn. But what we love to do more than anything is our martial arts training.
We started out doing Karate when we were five and we excelled in it so much we had black belts in the next couple months. We then proceded to foil, a European type of sword fighting. The year after that we turned to real sword fighting; and the year after that we were throwing Shurikens that were so sharp that if you touched the blade you would risk cutting off your finger. We continued to circulate around the martial arts until, by the age of 13, we were master fighters.
We're sixteen years old now and can still beat the crap out of every douche bag that trys to mess with us, but the question that comes to both of our minds whenever we pick up a foil or Shuriken...why? Why were we so good at fighting? Why did we love winning them so much? In fact, we were so brutal when we were fighting we sometimes had to have people come in and pull us off our oponents. We didn't mean to really hurt people when we started fighting but we went into a haze when we picked up a weapon. Like sharks when they smell blood. So why did that happen?
The night we found out the answer was the night we found out we were the key to the beggining of the apacolypse

teen ink vip

Ok, so you all know that I sent submissions in to teen ink. Well they just sent me a gmail and said that I had become a vip on their website because of the number of votes on my story! All of my votes got five stars!!!! That's amazing! I'm sending more short stories to be gone over so those can maybe get published, too. I wonder if this counts for publishing for scholarship applications. I hope it does because I really need that 20,000 dollar scholarship.....You have NO IDEA how much I need that money for college!

teenink!

Ok so here's the latest writing news. I sent one of my short stories into the teenink.com and it got published on their webpage!!!! yaaaaaay! Anyways it's called THE SIGHT and I'm really excited about it.

http://www.teenink.com/fiction/thriller_mystery/article/471530/The-Sight/

here's The Sight! go ahead and read it and vote on it. maybe you can help me get it published in the magazine too!

Afraid?

"You can live your whole life alone but you're never truly alone until there's no one left to love you." ~Danielle Standiford

A Painting

"Life is a painting, but who holds the brush?" ~Danielle Standiford

People Watching!

Why is it, when you're bored or lonelly you go to a public place to people watch? What is so interesting about other peoples' lives that you enjoy watching? Are you runing away from your own life by being an observer fo others? Or is it the mystery of life you're running from?

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"All fights are stupid. It's if you have too many of those stupid fights that make them serious." ~Danielle Standifor

Look at me like I'm a stranger!

Have you ever looked at someone that you know, like the way you look at a stranger? When you look at them you don't see the times you hung out or all the laughs you had, you just look at them. If you haven't....try it! Try to see in them what a stranger would see in them. I'm reading a book right now that speaks about glamours, but everyone is surrounded by glamours. Everyone has their own little secrets, and sometimes only people who don't know you can see those secrets. A secret that you keep well hidden from your friends and relatives might be really easy to spot from someone that just looks at you for a minute. Look at your friends like a stranger and the things that they try to keep hidden from you might become apparent.

Freaking out!

I'm silently freaking out right now. I have four days until the end of junior year/the begging of senior year, six days until my ACT, and soon it will be SUMMER!....Ok...so maybe I'm excited for the last part. Everything is changing. I read a book once that said: "You haven't grown up until you could go back to the past and change it." I guess that means I'm growing up...and that scares me, too.

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"I wish I could stop pretending. I wish I could make it all better....Life goes on I guess...Life goes on." ~Danielle Standiford

Songs Heal!

Sometimes there are no words to find. There is no way to put the things you are feeling into words. This doesn't mean they are not there. If you are feeling this way look to the songs. Songs heal. Sometimes the things you are feeling are already put into words by the famous singer songwriters of the world today. Katy Pery, Adel, One Direction, Boys Like Girls, The Gym Class Heroes, Kelly Clarkson, and even Disturbed or Slipknot. You can get inspiration from any song as long as it really means something to you.

This one is very inspirational to me.

All my life i've had people from school saying I'm not pretty enough, don't wear enough make-up, have TOO full of a figure. Some day I want someone to say this to me and it not be someone related to me or my friends. I want to be called beautiful just once and that's why "What makes you beautiful" by One Direction is inspiring to me. Listen to it and know, if you feel the same way I do, then you are not alone.

http://youtu.be/J7tj3P9qaPE

A roller coaster and my random ramblings!

"Life is a constant roller coaster. You're gonna throw up sometimes and when you do, you effect everyone around you. You're stuck there until the ride is done. You have to go through it with enthusiasm or you'll have a heart attach. The world doesn't revolve around you and the people in it count on you not to scream in their ear while you're there."
~Danielle Standford

Random Short Story

Using the famous quote from the movie The Sixth Sense: "I see dead people!" There are numerous differences between me and the boy from the movie though. First of all...I'm not a boy, which I hope is obvious to people. Second, I'm not that young anymore. Plus, the cliches he uses for when he sees the dead people are stupid. It doesn't get cold in the room, the lights don't dim, and most of the ghosts just want to talk. They love to be seen just as much as a weird kid in highschool...which is me so I can kind of relate.

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"I don't want to hide anymore but I don't know how to stop." ~Danielle Standiford

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"I see the world differently, but isn't that true for everyone else?"
~Danielle Standiford

The Crickets and a brothers influence!

I heard the crickets chirping last night. It's one of my favorite noises in the world. Of course, like everyone, the reasons we like certain things are because of the memories those senses are tied to. The crickets, to me, remind me of summer. Reminds me of restful nights, no cares in the world, family, and most of all....fun. In fact, when I was really young my older brother, Dusty, convinced me that we were going to run away and that the only thing we were going to be able to eat were crickets. Yes....my brother made me EAT a CRICKET!!! It's okay though because he ate one, too. Lol, I love summer.

My dog Ginger!

This is a picture of my bother Dusty and my dog Ginger. Ginger, unfortunatly, isn't doing so well lately. We suspect that she's got arthritis in her hips but this morning.....She wouldn't get up to go to the bathroom and when she finally did get up we had to help her get down the step to outside. When we did, she yelped. I'm so worried. My parents are taking her to the vet now but I don't even know what I'll do if she has to be put down. We got her when I was five and I'm 16 now. It would just be weird without her. yeah, really wierd.

Nothing Important?

I just started thinking about how to respond when someone asks you how you are doing. I know the appropriate thing to say is "fine" but people even say it when they're not. What I really don't like though is when people say "Nothing Important". What does that even mean? What might not be that important to you might be very important to someone else. Try this next time someone asks you that question, try saying the truth. Try, explaining to them how your life has really been, or don't say anything at all. "how are you" shouldn't be a in-passing comment that's used instead of just "hi". It's something you ask someone you really care for. Someone you really want to know how their life has been.