Chasing Life

Chasing Life

It is summer time so that means its time to binge on a new show on Netflix. I just recently finished Chasing Life. Grab your tissue box because this show takes you on an emotional rollercoaster.

One of my favorite thing about this show is that everything in it is completely unexpected and unpredictable. You don't predict how things will turn out. I also love the title, Chasing Life, because in reality aren't we all? We are chasing our lives around just waiting to get to the end. In the show it is quite ironic because the main character, April Carver, has cancer. Having cancer you go through many emotions. 

1. You give up because you feel as if your life is completely over. 

Then:

2. You live your life to its fullest capacity and what happens well it happens. 

Towards the end of the show April lives. She lives so much that she does everything she's ever wanted to in her entire life. She says, "I don't want to stop living my life, I just need to start living it differently". 

Take risks and life your life because you never know what happens an hour after you are reading this you may receive the worst news or the best news, you just need to live life to the fullest and not just survive. 

This show honestly changed my perspective on how I live my life. I live life to the fullest every day. 

Besides the empty box of tissues that laid next to me after I finished this show I was overwhelmed with so many emotions. This show is about living your best life, loving even when its so hard to, and just having a better perspective throughout your life. 

Sadly the show was canceled after the second season, but it ended perfectly. I like the mystery to it.

Xoxo

Writing

Writing 

Writing as many things in my life, is very beneficial to me and helps me through everything. I wrote this in seventh grade it was extremely important to me and that point in my life so I figured I would share it.

Love

Natalie Cortez

I was in love with the idea of being in love. I was so caught up in myself and him that I lost track of what I was doing and why I was doing it. I've realized over time that love is a strong word. But yet people misuse it everyday not fully understanding the true meaning. Like that boyfriend who told you he loves you but says it to a thousand other girls at the same time. Or your husband of five years but he ends up leaving when you need him most. Love means forever, something that will never break. People are using the word love like your grandmas most fragile plate. It sits in an open cabinet swinging back and forth until it falls and shatters on the floor. But real love is like a bullet proof window. Impossible to break.

You see love is tiding each other through the bad times. When I needed him most he left me. My mother was dying and he gets scared packs up his things and leaves me.

Love is waiting. He didn't wait for me. He got impatient and threw everything away. Including me.

Love is sacrifice. The only sacrifice he made for me was staying with me for that one day that I was fine. But, when I wasn't he was miles away.

Love is giving up fear and finding courage. I had more to be uncourageous of and afraid of but yet he acted more scared because he didn't have enough money to buy a plane ticket to fly away from me.

Love is looking past the flaws. Waking up in the morning with a bun on my head made him angry. He said that I needed to fix my hair. My mom, he thought she was some carry on package that didn't matter.

Love is telling the truth. Tell that to all the other girls that he fell in “love” with.

Love is giving up your old ways of living. Didnt give up anything for me besides him leaving. That was for himself.

Love looks beyond class and status. I was just starting out in life and didn't have a lot of money. To him I was classified as poor and worthless.

Love is believing in each other's dreams. Just like when I wanted to audition for that one show. He said I wasn't good enough.

Love changes you for the better. It seems like he's only gotten worse. I have tried to make him love me but nothing worked.

Love is letting go. That is exactly what I am doing.