We can always be a little better each day.

JOY.
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She thinks age is relative. If she were to be perfectly honest, she'll tell you she actually thinks she's an old soul. Her energy, though, says otherwise. She's a double major in Politics and Psychology, but her biggest dream is to work for National Geographic.

She'll never admit it to anyone, but she's always wanted to be a princess, and no, not the Disney kind. She loves anything Arabic and Russian, and she likes chocolate more than she likes a lot of things, and there are a lot of things she likes. She likes cameras, the military, dogs, Lego, Batman, and Harry Potter.

On random days, she refers to herself in the third person, and people think it's weird. She doesn't care, though, a friend once told her that weird is good.

Her mind's essentially Hotel California.





Young. Christian. Happy.

She's a Youth For Christ.

That's not to say she's a holy person, or that she's a righteous one. All it actually means is that she believes in living her life for something far greater than who she is. People sometimes look at her with scorn, especially since she lives in a world where no one wants to get associated with religion, but she doesn't mind.

Because everyday she's becoming a better version of herself.




Some days I believe we can rule the world.

She can't be angry. She tries, but she just can't. The simplest, shallowest things make her laugh. Mess with her friends, though, and she'll rush to you and make you remember why that wasn't such a good idea.

She's boyish, which can be because she has a lot of guy friends more than she has girls, but the ones here below, she's been friends with them since forever.

And she's planning to keep it that way.

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“Oh! The places you can go!”

Carpe Diem!
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 || 8:40 PM


When people ask me why I didn't take up summer classes despite the fact that I'm double majoring and I would honestly have to take all the subjects I can so I can graduate on time, I smile and say, "I'm seizing this summer, 'cause it just might be my last as an undergraduate."

When they continue to look at me hesitantly, or when I slowly see the slight tilt of head from side to side even as I explain my part, I don't say anything anymore, but deep inside I think, "I did the right thing. My last summer as an undergraduate - heck, as a minor - and I'm going to do what I usually did when I was a kid after school... have fun!"

And have fun, I'm going to continue to do.

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This song below has  been my mantra for the last 4 years. I listened to it the first time I got my piercing, the first time I traveled alone, the first time I got into college, the first time I said goodbye to home, and I'm probably going to sing it more this next year, now that I'm turning eighteen. Punk rock may have declined over the years, and Kris Roe may have become more clean-shaven and older-looking here, but the message this song brings will carry me to more places than where I couldn't have imagined myself.


After all, I'm still young. And I'd like to believe I'm living the best days of my life.

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I'm Joy. I'm in my last month as a seventeen year old. Welcome to the idiosyncrasy that is my world.

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