Living Life Regardless

Hey Everybody,
Sorry about the hiatus there but I really felt like I had something I needed to talk about today and that blogging is something that I would like to try and get back into. It is for that reason that today I want to talk about making time for the things you love.
Now I am not saying that you can abandon all your responsibilities to go live in a cabin and perfect your art isolated from mankind. We all have commitments that are important and that we need to fulfil. As some of you may know I am currently a full time student in her first year of sixth form and like many other people my age I also have commitments outside of school. These aspects of my life are important and many of my commitments are also things I am genuinely passionate about. However, there are also things I am passionate about that no one is going to give me the time or the permission to do but these things are also important because they are important to me. Some of these things are even things I want to be making a living out of one day, so regardless of what other people think these aspects of my life are significant. They are significant thing to me.
Recently one thing I have been trying to give more time to is my writing. I have been working on poetry as well as more recently attempting to develop a novel idea. In the past when I have told people that I want to be a writer I have not always received a positive response, with some people not understanding how writing can be a viable career. To that I say that writing is a viable career but it requires work and practise and that needs to start NOW! I still need to still need to work hard at school to ensure my grades, not only because I am passionate about my subjects but also because the opportunity to study English Literature at university would enviably help my writing. I also need to and want to remain committed to my other activities. However, I am not going to let other people's opinions dictate what I allocate my time to and if writing is something I want to pursue than that is what I will do. If I truly want it I will just have to find time.
Look at it this way, life is hard regardless and there are always things that are going to make it so but we have the opportunity to make the most of it. I know as well as anyone just how challenging life can be and I am also aware that there is always something you have to do. The choice you have to make is where you put the time you can control. If there is a dream you have you need to give yourself the authority to follow it because I can promise you that in a world driven by status quo and work no one else will. I want to write a book, I want to travel to Tibet, Japan and Berlin (again), I want to create but no one else can do those things for me. You only have so much time on this Earth and you have to decide what you do with it.
-GirlUnEdited