As most of you know, we live in a new aged ‘technological’ world of collaborations. Sometimes it can be a great creative outlet, and then theres the times where you feel like you’re being used as a money making machine. Well, this time around I got together with a few ladies and we took off to the Ace Hotel to get ready. Then off we set to the desert! I told the girls on the drive into Joshua Tree “This is a place you either find yourself or lose yourself.” You get an eerie feeling there. Like you're on pause and everything around is passing you by in a fast forward motion. Time stops for no one. Anyway, working with these creatives on that drive out gave us a little more time to chat, we all learned a lot about each other. Naturally social media was a topic of interest. We reassured each other were all human, with real experiences and real human feelings. I say this because nothing is what it used to be or what it appears to be anymore. You don't meet people as easily and they definitely aren't as open as they used to be. When you think you “know” someone via their Instagram page you quickly realize you really don’t, until you personally converse with them. I'm still learning things about my best friends daily. I feel like it is important to stress to whoever is reading or even cares that you cannot compare yourself to another human being. You are you. And that’s why you are so dang unique. Now these girls I met were honestly some of the sweetest girls I've had the pleasure of working with. I appreciated every moment in that car ride out. Even the dead silent ones where a dirt plain was all you could gaze off too, and static noise pulsating off the hot sun beaten windshield was all you could hear. Being a girl who has moved from place to place and from one school to the next countless amounts of times, I know how it is to feel like someone who doesn't belong. I remember to this day the girls (and boys) who treated me like I was inconsequential, or made fun of me for listening to music that they now pretend to like. Or for wearing leather jackets and converse and being asked if I thought I was “hard core”. Just for being different in general. Even since elementary school I’ve always listened to old school music, Disney channel just wasn’t for me. It’s hard fitting in with Orange County kids coming in as an outsider. I often found myself in a rabbit hole of questions, about myself and other people. What so many people don't understand is that any small thing you say can shake someones world. I regret no part of who I am and what I've been through. Then college came along temporarily and as I grew older, and got to work with great people I learned more about what it meant to be individual, and how it is a prodigious thing to be. I get to express that by being myself and wearing what I want to wear, saying what I want to say and damn it feels good not to be confined to anything. It is so refreshing to meet other people with original thoughts and kind hearts. I've shared this before but again I say, INVEST in your relationships. Don't focus on other peoples facades. Keep an open mind. Try new things and work hard at your goals even if you're feeling discouraged. Focus on bettering yourself just knowing that you could improve the lives around you. Even if its something small you happened to utter out of your mouth, no matter what you do you're leaving an imprint on the world and other beings. Never be afraid to express yourself and fully be who you are. (Even if it takes some reminding to yourself, thats okay.)
Recognizing today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and how he exercised the power of love and all that it can do, I share this quote by him.
"Nothing in this world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity”
Think about it.
Photography: Gabriellacullynephotography
Hair & Make-up: LillyPollanmakeup
Wearing Flynn Skye currently at www.ShopRoyalie.com
