MY DIGITAL PHOTO ALBUM

Here are a few pictures I have taken during the last few months.

I am INCREDIBLY blessed to live in such a beautiful place.

Sorry if some are bad quality, I edited them all on my phone. (Featuring South Shields, Scottish boarders, Whitburn and Preston)

P&L - Tal

End of the pier.

Cleadon Park

Camels Island

The Leas

Camels Island, again.

Cleadon Park, again. (It's all about perspective lads)

South Shields beach, flying kites with Sister Van Zyl and Sister Hippard.

Park, but not quite central (Cleadon)

Pier sunset.

Pier again, sun way set.

The Leas, again. Sunset.

Scotland boarders, Coldstream.

South Shields beach, sunset.

South Shields beach, taken with GoPro (SPONSOR ME)



Preston England Temple.

Cheeky flower, Whitburn Beach.

Achievement

- Tal 19th May 2016
I'm writing this one in bold because it's important. 


So recently I've been thinking about my life and what I want to do with it. Due to the fact this time next year I'll be done with it, I've been thinking about what I want to do. I'm really struggling with school at the minute as well, which has helped in making decisions because it has motivated me to really think hard about what will make me happy for the rest of my life. The thing is with school, is that anything you do gets judged (literally) your work gets marked, you are judged by your peers, you are told what is right and what is wrong with YOUR work.. Already that sounds wrong, don't you think? I've noticed the past few months when doing coursework my teachers have been 'correcting it' but in reality, changing everything we do. Sometimes it's really frustrating because you feel like you have done it the best of your ability but then there's most likely always something wrong. I get the fact that the whole point of school is to educate you, but I think most teachers are confused with 'educating' and 'moulding'. School is supposed to educate you so that you are able to make your way in  life with the knowledge that you have learnt, not mould you into a person that you aren't and make you feel guilty for any of the credit you get. 

I don't know if I've came across as I meant to but basically I feel that school has squeezed the creativity out of everyone I know. I know a few people who have developed anxiety because we are scared to go from our own knowledge and conscience because we think we will look stupid if we are 'corrected'. In the past 2 years I have came to the realisation that whatever grades we get do not determine who who are or where we are going in life. That is the thing I hate about school, the teachers drum into you that if you do not do well then you life is over. There are many inspirational people who have achieved great things in their lifetime who did not have a great education such as: 

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9. Albert Einstein: Most of us take Einstein's name as synonymous with genius, but he didn't always show such promise. Einstein did not speak until he was four and did not read until he was seven, causing his teachers and parents to think he was mentally handicapped, slow and anti-social. Eventually, he was expelled from school and was refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School. It might have taken him a bit longer, but most people would agree that he caught on pretty well in the end, winning the Nobel Prize and changing the face of modern physics.
10. Charles Darwin: In his early years, Darwin gave up on having a medical career and was often chastised by his father for being lazy and too dreamy. Darwin himself wrote, "I was considered by all my masters and my father, a very ordinary boy, rather below the common standard of intellect." Perhaps they judged too soon, as Darwin today is well-known for his scientific studies.






Why have only one plan?

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First Blog of 2016

 So 2015... what can I say? One of the worst years of my life so far, however I sure have learnt a lot about myself and found a small part of who I am last year. I feel like when you 'discover' fully who you are or even a small piece you are at one, but you seek for adventure. Adventure and change is the road to discovering who you actually are. You discover something more than just your name, your family and your memories, you reveal something incredible.

Last year I realised I was never happy. It took me around half of 2015 to find out why that was and I now know, although it wasn't all down to my health but it was also down to choices I had made, friends I had and my perspective whilst living day-to-day life. Towards the very end of the year I finally acted upon my plan to get rid all of the negativity in my life that took me around 4 months to work out. This gave me two months to think things through and actually made me think again about everything and if it would actually make me happier for the long term or if it was just going to benefit in the short term. Too much happened last year that effected the way I was thinking, I couldn't think straight so I just done what I thought was best and went with my head over my heart. I got rid of some friends, I thought it would've been incredibly hard but actually it was a huge relief. Although I loved and still do love those friends it has benefited my life massively and I now know it was the right decision because my outlook on life has changed once agam.

I'm still trying to figure things out. And I don't believe I will ever figure everything out I would like to, but as I try, I discover more things I would like to figure out. That might sound weird, but that is how I am able to find who I am. As I logged into Blogger after a long period of nearly 3 months this post was actually a draft, I'd written the first part but this paragraph is what I've added and it's funny to see that at the start of 2016 I felt like I'd found myself a little bit more, and since then I haven't been able to progress from that. It's a time consuming process and I can't wait until it is over. Depending on if it ever does, of course. I get so caught up in my own mind sometimes. I need to stop for a while and sort myself out sometimes.. There is so many disadvantages of being a deep person.

I hope, at some stage, everyone in their lives start or continue the process of finding who they are.. Not how others have molded you as you've grown. Because this is your life, and at some point you'll probably be alone in the world and need to make impressions on people. Being somebody else will never get you far.


Find your own way.



- Tal

Official Auntie

This Gif basically sums up my life right now, considering Dwight is my spirit animal. And... My sister had a sweet baby girl yesterday with long blonde hair and a cute little scrunching nose. I love her so much! I am now officially Auntie Ash and I am so exited to meet little baby E!