| who i am ashley rachel craig where I reside i currently live in glendale, az my age i am 20 on writing I've been a writer my whole life, I don't really know why I began, furthermore I don't think it really matters. I do know why I continue writing: To escape the life I live, when I am writing, no one else can affect me. People have always been cruel, I don't understand why, but it is true. I guess I'm easy to laugh at...or something. For a while I was cruel...to those less fortunate than me...it doesn't really make sense, but the people who treated me so poorly were the people I thought were COOL. I tried act as they did. I'm different now...I try to be nice to everyone , because I know how it feels to be rejected and mistreated, I know what it's like to be on the outside looking in. I fully relate to the phrase "down trodden." I also have decided that if I have to mean and condescending to fit in, I'd rather not fit in.If that's what it takes to be COOL, I guess I'll just remian a kind-hearted loser. And if anyone who is COOL is reading this...I wish you no harm...but odds are that one day (maybe tomorrow, maybe in ten years) you'll know what it feels like be rejected, and when that day comes, the people you have hurt, ridiculed and humiliated will be the ones who understand how you feel, but you may have burned all of your bridges and be forced to suffer alone. As much as I hate cliches, I must say: next time you feel like hurting someone, stop for a second, and imagine walking a mile in their shoes. what i want to change the way people treat each other (poorly) /\ other people's minds about vegetarianism (respect everything) /\ the flawed system of American public schooling /\ the system of social and economic ladders that one must climb to be successful, disregarding those who brown nose their way to the top what i listen to Tori Amos Fiona Apple Beatles Billy & Liza Bjork Blind Melon Blues Traveler Counting Crows Cranberries Sheryl Crow Deep Banana Blackout Karl Denson Dido Disco Biscuits Ani DiFranco Doors Grateful Dead Hendrix Indigo Girls Jewel Janis Joplin LBD All Stars Nirvana Joan Osborne Oysterhead Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Pink Floyd Phish Patti Rothberg REM Michelle Shocked Cat Stevens Siouxsie and The Banshees Slightly Stoopid String Cheese Incident Sublime Suzanne Vega Tenacious D Dar Williams Keller Williams Ween |