Equal Marriage

MPs have just voted for Gay Marriage in the UK. 400 to 175 I think.

This is obviously a good thing, and I don't want to seem depressing but it still shocks me that 175 people (out of 575 presumably) would vote against it. That's 30%!

What right do they think they have to dictate who can get married to whom? 

It infuriates me that closed minded people make it their mission to try and prevent other people from being happy. 

It was the same feeling as a few months ago when it was voted that women still can't be Bishops (Although clearly this was a better outcome).

Why do horrible little people think that it is okay to tell others how to live their lives when they aren't harming anyone or anything? The injustice of things like this make me so so angry. I am not eloquent enough to express how I feel but I can imagine that a lot of people feel this too.

I just want to scream at these people until they understand that they have no logical and reasonable justification to their idiotic and old fashioned ideas.

I will also never understand why some religious people take certain parts of the bible completely literally whilst ignoring whole chunks of it! 

The Fault in our Stars

I read 'The Fault in our Stars' the other night. Literally. I got it Thursday morning and stayed up until half past one reading it.

It is so beautifully honest in a brutal way. I don't want to give away any spoilers (just in case anyone reads this ha) but it made me cry several times. John Green writes so stunningly and truthfully that I can't stop re reading it, and every time I do read it I get something else from it.

I would love to be an author so much. I love to read and write stories (not so much essays).

But I don't think I have the skill to write an entire novel and keep the plot wound so tight and perfect, and make the characters flawed and realistic human beings.

So for now I will be content in reading and fangirling over talented authors.

My Weekend

I did my first actual shift at work last night. I was terrible. I'm not too worried because everyone said that I would be terrible on my first shift and that they were terrible when they started too.

My next shift is Monday.

I went to a party afterwards. It was okay. I got a bit emotional but I think everyone is pretty emotional and stressed at the moment.

I am doing work today (and tomorrow) and I have discovered a good way to get more work done. Listening to piano music helps me to concentrate more and it is really relaxing.

I feel like I really need to just knuckle down for a couple of months and really try my best or I know I will regret it so much.

I can tell that wont happen but if I aim for 'knuckling down' I should at least work a bit harder.