These days, I've been trying to classify my thoughts into two categories: "Things I can change," and "Things I can't." It seems to help me sort through what to really stress about. But there I go again, over-planning and over-organizing my over-thinking! I write songs about my adventures and misadventures, most of which concern love. Amore is a tricky business. But if it wasn't, I wouldn't be so enthralled with it. Lately I've come to a wonderful realization that makes me even più fascinated da it:
I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does! There's no pattern to it, except that it happens to all of us, of course I can't plan for it. I can't predict how it'll end up. Because Amore is unpredictable, frustrating, tragic and it's beautiful. And even though there's no way to feel like I'm an expert at it, it's worth Scrivere songs about -- più than anything else I've ever experienced in my life.
I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point o another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added più things to my list. Like for example, I'm still beyond obsessed with the winter season and I still start putting up strings of lights in September. I still Amore sparkles and grocery shopping and really old Gatti that are only nice to te half the time. I still Amore Scrivere in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers. But some new things I've fallen in Amore with -- mismatched everything. Mismatched chairs, mismatched colors, mismatched personalities. I Amore spraying perfumes I used to wear when I was in high school. It brings me back to the days of trying to get a close parking spot at school, trying to get noticed da calcio players, and trying to figure out how to avoid doing o saying anything uncool, and wishing every minuto of every giorno that one giorno maybe I'd get a chance to win a Grammy. o something crazy and out of reach like that. ;) I Amore old buildings with the paint chipping off the walls and my dad's stories about college. I Amore the freedom of living alone, but I also Amore things that make me feel seven again.
Back then naivety was the norm and skepticism was a foreign language, and I just think every once in a while te need fries and a Cioccolato milkshake and your mom. I Amore picking up a cookbook and closing my eyes and opening it to a random page, then attempting to make that recipe. I've loved my fan from the very first day, but they've detto things and done things recently that make me feel like they're my Friends -- più now than ever before. I'll never go a giorno without thinking about our memories together.
For the last two years, I've been Scrivere and recording an album called Speak Now. I only have the option of Scrivere about things that happen in my life, so thankfully a LOT has happened in my life in the last two years. I know I don't always say the right thing at the right time o speak up when I should, but I write it all down. I get my chitarra and a pen and all of a sudden, I have a chance to say exactly what I meant to say in real life. Some of the things I wrote about are things everyone saw me go through. Some of the things I wrote about are things nobody ever knew about. I'm beyond excited for te to hear these stories and confessions.
I think it's important that te know that I will never change. But I'll never stay the same either. Must be a Sagittarius thing.
I'm pretty stoked that te read this whole thing. I commend te for that. This was ridiculously long, and te probably have other stuff te could've done in the last four minutes. So to you, o anyone else who has spent four minuti on me in some way-- listening to just one song, o watching one of my videos….Thank you. I Amore te like I Amore sparkles and having the last word. And that's real love.
