I’m Claire. I’m 18. I’m on my third year of college, studying statistical and actuarial stuff. I’m just another one of those melodramatic females who give too much significance to love and dreams. I have the most unhealthy habit of thinking and worrying too much. And I have this big indestructible goal in life to inspire and influence people through the medium of my writing. I know it sounds too HUGE to attain, but then again, if people were too realistic, what would have happened to us? To you? Not being able to read this electronic message for sure. Yeah, we should be friends. :)Tumblr (3.0; @appleparachutes)http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lui7baJYSf1r1lli5o1_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lui7baJYSf1r1lli5o2_400.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thehealthywarrior.tumblr.com/post/12643733123/date-a-girl-who-reads-by-rosemarie-urquico-in">thehealthywarrior</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong><big><big>DATE A GIRL WHO READS<br/></big></big></strong><small><small>by Rosemarie Urquico <br/>(In response to Charles Warnke’s <a href="http://thoughtcatalog.com/2011/dont-date-a-girl-who-reads/">You Should Date an Illiterate Girl</a>)</small></small></p> <p>Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.</p> <p>Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.</p> <p>She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.</p> <p>Buy her another cup of coffee.</p> <p>Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.</p> <p>It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.</p> <p>She has to give it a shot somehow.</p> <p>Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.</p> <p>Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.</p> <p>Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.</p> <p>If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.</p> <p>You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.</p> <p>You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.</p> <p>Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.</p> <p>Or better yet, date a girl who writes.</p> </blockquote>http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/34768339208http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/34768339208Fri, 02 Nov 2012 01:33:36 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3xbnnMHer1qgyggko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.1000notes.com/post/34370583030">the-absolute-best-posts</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p class="gone"><a href="http://goo.gl/5Jvlm"><strong>This is a great blog to follow, seriously</strong></a></p> </blockquote>http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/34427288642http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/34427288642Sun, 28 Oct 2012 01:59:10 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6sdekDNHu1qmzl5vo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.1000notes.com/post/34391758266">the-absolute-best-posts</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p class="gone"><a href="http://goo.gl/5Jvlm"><strong>This is a great blog to follow, seriously</strong></a></p> </blockquote>http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/34427089096http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/34427089096Sun, 28 Oct 2012 01:56:01 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbr9rdySVw1rqvkj3o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.1000notes.com/post/34400476284">the-absolute-best-posts</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p class="gone"><a href="http://goo.gl/5Jvlm"><strong>This is a great blog to follow, seriously</strong></a></p> </blockquote>http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/34427042443http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/34427042443Sun, 28 Oct 2012 01:55:17 +0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbx934sWu91ruob97o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.1000notes.com/post/34407640491">the-absolute-best-posts</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p class="gone"><a href="http://goo.gl/5Jvlm"><strong>This is a great blog to follow, seriously</strong></a></p> </blockquote> <p>Sky on fire</p>http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/34426691542http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/34426691542Sun, 28 Oct 2012 01:49:48 +0800“The planet does not need more ‘successful people’. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds. It needs people to live well in their places. It needs people with moral courage willing to join the struggle to make the world habitable and humane and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture is the set.”<br/><br/> - <em><strong>Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama</strong> (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://skeletales.tumblr.com/">skeletales</a>)</em>http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/34426552447http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/34426552447Sun, 28 Oct 2012 01:47:35 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyl3ivzevh1r8p3qjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.1000notes.com/post/30020409096">the-absolute-best-posts</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p class="gone"><a href="http://goo.gl/5Jvlm"><strong>This is a great blog to follow, seriously</strong></a></p> </blockquote>http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/30099775368http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/30099775368Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:02:53 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7ygkajBig1rrnc83o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.1000notes.com/post/30021521254">the-absolute-best-posts</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p class="gone"><a href="http://goo.gl/5Jvlm"><strong>This is a great blog to follow, seriously</strong></a></p> </blockquote>http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/30099773555http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/30099773555Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:02:49 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m84qwsbB5A1qmbg8bo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.1000notes.com/post/30024168964">the-absolute-best-posts</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p class="gone"><a href="http://goo.gl/5Jvlm"><strong>This is a great blog to follow, seriously</strong></a></p> </blockquote>http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/30099771552http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/30099771552Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:02:45 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m96q6oGULD1qfdwsio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.1000notes.com/post/30034889412">the-absolute-best-posts</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p class="gone"><a href="http://goo.gl/5Jvlm"><strong>This is a great blog to follow, seriously</strong></a></p> </blockquote>http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/30099462112http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/30099462112Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:52:54 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m899ssgunV1rbn8yfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.1000notes.com/post/30037171338">the-absolute-best-posts</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p class="gone"><a href="http://goo.gl/5Jvlm"><strong>This is a great blog to follow, seriously</strong></a></p> </blockquote>http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/30099458206http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/30099458206Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:52:46 +0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m79aoezr3d1raslsqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.1000notes.com/post/30062448066">the-absolute-best-posts</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p class="gone"><a href="http://goo.gl/5Jvlm"><strong>This is a great blog to follow, seriously</strong></a></p> </blockquote>http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/30099215501http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/30099215501Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:44:36 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5mkk12UMo1rqnuhko1_r3_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://ibelieveinmartinfreeman.tumblr.com/post/25130591565/sherlock-holmes-i-didnt-know-i-saw-your">ibelieveinmartinfreeman</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Sherlock Holmes</strong><span>: I didn’t know, I saw.</span><span> Your haircut, the way you hold yourself, says military. But your conversation as you entered the room — said trained at Bart’s, so army doctor. </span></p> </blockquote>http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/25154417949http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/25154417949Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:02:08 +0800<p>Are you going to laugh at my face if I tell you my indestructible goal in life is to save the world? I&#8217;m a person who gives so much significance to dreams. For me, dreams are what makes life exciting and meaningful. You have a reason to get up each morning. You have something to hold on to if life becomes too crappy. You just know you have to keep going because your mission isn&#8217;t completed just yet. Fulfillment, a sense of pride, happiness and all those great feelings when you finally see your loved ones smiling at you, proud after you make it.. Life would be perfect at that point. I&#8217;m beginning to think that the concept of heaven is just a metaphor of that state. I mean, what else could be better than that?? Achieving your biggest goal of being able to help people and seeing everyone you care for happy for you. But then again, life is full of mysteries and I wouldn&#8217;t know. I&#8217;ve never wanted to settle for something &#8220;okay&#8221; or something &#8220;just right.&#8221; I know, I might have an exaggerated estimate of my intellect and abilities, but if people didn&#8217;t, no one would be dreaming big. People would be realistic. Internet would be nonexistent. You wouldn&#8217;t be able to read this electronic message. I want to inspire and influence people. I want to change lives. I know how HARD that is to attain and I have no idea how I would be able to do that.. yet. But intimidation and lacking of a concrete plan won&#8217;t stop me. We only get one chance at life, why would you settle for something low? Why would you limit yourself into something that could also be attained by just anyone? What would make you distinctive from the others? When you die, how will you be remembered? How would your temporary presence in this world convey a special meaning to people&#8217;s lives? Will your name leave a sweet taste in their mouths when your name is uttered? Or would you rather sit back and watch? Now tell me.. Are you going to laugh at my face if I tell you my indestructible goal in life is to save the world?</p>http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/24755911107http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/24755911107Sun, 10 Jun 2012 01:42:25 +0800dreams success<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m3u8ajjAs91qa5z1ro1_500.gif"/><br/><br/>http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/23771661815http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/23771661815Sat, 26 May 2012 10:29:10 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4cv43nKKB1qi8qaao1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4cv43nKKB1qi8qaao2_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4cv43nKKB1qi8qaao3_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4cv43nKKB1qi8qaao4_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4cv43nKKB1qi8qaao5_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4cv43nKKB1qi8qaao6_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4cv43nKKB1qi8qaao7_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4cv43nKKB1qi8qaao8_250.gif"/><br/> <br/>http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/23771657132http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/23771657132Sat, 26 May 2012 10:29:05 +0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m430luirt01qadg42o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/23771365070http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/23771365070Sat, 26 May 2012 10:24:29 +0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzp8fl4FTo1r3k73wo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/23771249993http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/23771249993Sat, 26 May 2012 10:22:41 +0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4fzenvZUk1qgj4zoo1_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4fzenvZUk1qgj4zoo2_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4fzenvZUk1qgj4zoo3_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4fzenvZUk1qgj4zoo4_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4fzenvZUk1qgj4zoo5_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4fzenvZUk1qgj4zoo6_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4fzenvZUk1qgj4zoo7_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4fzenvZUk1qgj4zoo8_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4fzenvZUk1qgj4zoo9_250.gif"/><br/> <br/><p>The Naked Man! Hahaha I love this show!</p>http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/23771137422http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/23771137422Sat, 26 May 2012 10:20:56 +0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4frt6Ecmh1qewi0to1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Yeah always go for bribery! </p>http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/23770996121http://appleparachutes.tumblr.com/post/23770996121Sat, 26 May 2012 10:18:42 +0800