quotable quote

i love donald miller. i was catching up on his blog today and came across this post entitled the joy of getting older:

"i wish i could go back and talk to myself when i was twenty. i'd say to myself "listen, don't worry about the things you've been worrying about. everything is going to work out great." and i'd likely clarify with myself that "in the future i get everything i need?" and i'd say back to myself, "no, you just realise you didn't need it. and that's even better."

{donald miller}

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blank pages

so after reading miller's a million miles and deciding i want to write a better story with my life, i bought something to write my story in. i really want to travel, a lot, and i have so many places i want to see, so i bought myself a travel journal.

ja it's kind of nerdy, but there's something about having a very cool-looking travel journal with blank boring pages that makes me want to fill them.
actually purchasing the air ticket will be the next step. promise! x

miller and me

donald miller rocks my world. in fact he sometimes turns it upside down. it's not often you encounter such a great writer, with such great stories. he writes in such a way that you feel like you're having a conversation with him, over coffee, just listening to him for hours. never getting bored. and he speaks with a profound honesty and simplicity. i'm just finishing off a million miles in a thousand years (read it. now. seriously) and i wrote down some quotes that really stabbed at my heart.

"fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life." pg. 108

"there is a force resisting the beautiful things in the world, and too many of us are giving in.
The world needs for us to have courage.
The world needs for us to write something better." pg. 118

he inspires me to want to live a better story with my life.
watch this space.
things are going to be changing in a big way.
very soon.
an inciting incident.
a character arc.
positive and negative turns.

i'm stoked.