T'WENTY THREE

A month/year of your life when you were happiest and why?

Maybe as a start I should say that summer (i.e.: December- February) are always happy months for me, there;s just something about summer, the sun, beaches, all that that makes me happy.

However, more specifically, I remember 2010 being such a great year. It was the first time that I really started making really close guy friends *the effects of an all girls school for years I guess) I mean its not that I dint know guys at all, but they just moved into people I could chat for hours with, rather than just friends. Also, there was something about the year, school wasn't too hard, I had amazing friends, life just wasn't too complicated..... I am sure,  as usual, at the time I would have thought it was like any other time, but I would do anything to have another year like that.

- Caity xx

Day 22:

I can't help laughing when I look at the day count on this thing, because though this is day 22, its been about half a year, if not more....

Anyway, supposed day 22 is HOW YOU JUDGE INTELLIGENCE

Sure, there's a certain type of person when they just get everything. I know a few of them, most of my friends are pretty intellegent, I often feel a bit lost amoung their 90% agreghates and conversations that are occasionally just above me, but the thing is, though I most definiely do not do as well, I know plenty of people who get lower grades but I still consider them more intellegent. To me, I think that intelegence is based on wisedom rather than IQ or brightness. Inteligence is being logical, sensible.

- Caity xx

day 21

I have yet again completely lost track of a daily commitment as such, however even though this challenge will certainly take me longer than a year, I want to keep doing it.... I don't know, sometimes I feel stupid, writing this chain of messages to the internet, no one actually reading them or showing much response but what I do like is that it makes me think...

for example, this one DAY 21:  everything you wish for in a significant other
I find this question really tough, quite frankly, despite the fact that I don't consider myself an ignorant person, I don't even know what is really meant by 'significant other'? So I guess the way I can answer this question is take the meaning of significant other to be what I look for in the ideal person, you know, what I hope I can be? 

Maybe I can answer this by sharing my new year's resolutions.... I usually would never do this, I am a fairly personal person and currently my resolutions of in my tiny little journal locked away in my top drawer.. but then again, this is for me, I don't suppose many people, especially no one that I know are reading this. so, my resolutions:

1) TREAT OTHERS AS YOU WISH TO BE TREATED, so cheesy, right? But its still true, something I've always thought about cliches, we are constantly told not to use them in English class, however, the reason that they are a cliche to begin with is because they have been said many times, and the reason for that? Because they are true and wise. This year I hope that I can just half live up to the purity of one who treats others as they wish to be treated.... I must admit, I've had this resolution for a while now, but it gets hard rather quickly with the regular stress of school, and just life I guess.
2) STOP BEING JEALOUS, unfortunately I am a rather jealous person, in the way that I've often looked a pretty girls and wished I looked like that, or envied the success of a friend, that type of stuff.....I hope that does'nt make me out to be a horrible person, I promise I'm not, and I would never admit that I envy this stuff but again, its easy to get caught up in what other people have and what you don't. This year I hope to be completely grateful and satisfied with who I am, how I look and what I can do. 
3) BE THE CHANGE YOU WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD... another classic, I know... but this year, I really just want to make a significant difference. Living in South Africa has numerous perks, but I must say that occasionally when something tragic happens due to the result of poverty, it makes staying here harder than it seems. I really want to make difference in SA, I hope to make a small contribution to bettering the rather tough situations of many people living here. 
4) STOP BEING SCARED TO LIVE, so often I have kicked myself for being scared. I do not want to be a fearful person, scared to do so many great thing, go on incredible adventures just because I am scared of death, of the unknown.... I really hope that this year I can live to the fullest and seize every singe opportunity. 

I'm sorry that I drifted off, but I didn't really know how else to answer the question... chat soon.... but work on your own resolutions :) I don't know if you're out there, if anyone's reading this, but have an amazing 2013, I know I plan to.

- Caity xx

TWENTY

Day 20: what you think makes someone beautiful:

To me, beauty is not defined by the outside, but by who you are and how you treat others. Beauty is modesty, dignity, confidence and passion. Although, I am still a teenage girl and so yes, I look at certain girls and think they're pretty, it sucks, but we all judge without even realising it half the time. I don't really think it's necessary for me to write what makes someone beautiful on the outside because firstly, my view is so influenced by society's expectations and the media, etc (I mean who doesn't want to be thin, have beautiful bright blue eyes, long straight hair, clear skin, tanned, and the list goes on). And secondly, as I said in the beginning, beauty for me, is defined by who you are on the inside, way more than how you look. It may be your appearance that captures his attention but your personality that captures his heart. 

- Caity xx

DAY NINE-TEEN

Day 19: your thoughts on your family:

My family mean everything to me. I have a big family, there's my parents, me, my two brothers and my sister. I guess thats also just my immediate family. I know that I am so so lucky to have them. I love every single one of them and they do so much for me. Recently I went on exchange for 6 weeks and although I never expected it at all, I was incredibly home sick. I hate looking back on those times because I honestly felt so bitter, all I wanted was to be with them. And having an experience as such really made me realise how grateful I am for them. 

My family is my rock. I think that we all need our family because they are there for the good and the bad. After all blood is thicker than water.

- Caity xx

day EIGHTEEN

Day 18: why you made your blog, why you still have it:

I made this blog because I am the type of person who likes to express myself although I had tried all the things like journals and diaries, etc and only kept them up for a couple of weeks before I found them kind of pointless. So I made a blog and found that I really liked it. As for why I have kept it up, well firstly, I am doing this challenge and I don't want to stop halfway, I guess you could say I am the sort of person who wants to start what she has finished. But otherwise, I enjoy blogging. I have another blog, that sort of shares and discusses music (feel free to check it out) at http://music-is-my-gravity.blogspot.com but what I like about this one is that no one I know knows about it and so the only people (if any, I'm not sure) that read it don't know me, so it gives that sense of privacy, even though its a public site. 

- Caity xx

Day 17

Day 17: your idol and why you look up to them:

Can I be 100% honest....I don't know who my idol is yet. There are a number of people that I consider my role models like my parents, my gran and my friend Steph. However, I wouldn't yet say that I have an idol. I don't know.

- Caity xx