The essential truth to life is to fail and make mistakes. We grow as individuals, and we aspire to become greater humans than we already are. There is no point to life if we cannot learn and grow. We learn new material every single day, and it is from this new material that we can shine brighter than the days before the present, to mature vastly in ways our past selves do not understand. We grow in love, the kind where butterflies fill your entire stomach from rapidly travelling down a steep hill. The kind that makes you to not eat, not sleep, head over heels kind of love. Love is the very way of life that keeps the days worth living for. Without love, there would be no life, no reason to wake up every single morning to start the new day. The love we share together will help us to grow in life. Yes, we will get our hearts broken, and the keen sting from those heartbreaks will be just enough for us to turn our backs from love completely, but it is essential to grow from it, to find a new beginning. You, as an individual, are so important to this life. To love yourself before anything or anyone else is the key to everything. The love you can share with yourself will one day spread to those you will love for the rest of your life. Remember to fail, to make mistakes, to learn and to grow, to fall in love, and to be the best human being that you can be in this world.
While it’s no surprise that we’re big Taylor Swift fans in this household, something about this newest album release felt different. On the eve of the drop, anticipation ran high. Some of us drifted off to sleep with visions of glitter, feathers, and showgirls twirling in our minds. Others fueled up on caffeine, determined to stay awake until the clock struck twelve. And when it did—on October 3—we were ready for it. But this time, I chose sleep. The next morning, headphones in hand, I pressed play as soon as I woke up—and almost immediately, I felt something shift. Taylor’s music has always been deeply relatable—that’s never been in question. The Life of a Showgirl follows the forever-endearing The Tortured Poets Department, an album I adored with every ounce of my being. That record proved what so many of us already knew: Taylor is a poet at large. Naturally, expectations for this new album were sky-high. The Life of a Showgirl promised to peel back the curtain—to reveal life beyond ...
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