What Katy Writes

How much of life do we live because that is what we truly want to be doing?  How many choices do we make based on our personal desires without taking into consideration other people? How many times have we become stressed about how we are viewed, thought of and spoken about? For me, I know that I have come to base a lot of my decisions and life choices on expectations. Whether they be my own, or the expectations of others, I find that I rarely sit back and truly examine the way my life is going and what I have achieved and what I want to achieve without thinking about the judgments of others. This frustrates me. I know a lot of people who claim to "not care what anyone thinks of them" and nearly everyone who I have heard utter that sentence with real conviction and who truly try to live like that, when I look at the people who are closest to them, they are often unhappy.  It is impossible, in my opinion, to put yourself first all the time and do only what you want to do...

When I first started this blog, I wanted to try and write a post around once a week, but all of a sudden it's 17th February 2013 and I haven't written anything since October 2012. As I sit here looking back over the last four months, nothing overly significant has happened to keep me so occupied that I couldn't find half an hour to sit down and write down some of my constantly whirling thoughts. Over the last four months I have worked, continued planning mine and Reid's wedding, celebrated Christmas and a New Year and turned 23 years old. It gets me thinking about my priorities and how much life can fly by without you even stopping to breathe and enjoy a moment.  That has definitely been my life for the past four months, probably even longer. For my whole school life, I wanted to be a teacher.  I completed year twelve in 2008 and applied to do a Bachelor of Arts with the aim of then going on to do a Masters of Teaching. I started my Arts degree, immediately felt re...