Kimberly O'Brien
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creating and dreaming my way through life while admiring the beauty of it all along the way
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Light, Dark, and Everything in Between
She had a collection of Alice in Wonderland books and still, at 25, dreamed of finding a secret garden. She never related to anyone dead or alive more than she did Sylvia Plath, a tragedy she both romanticized and despised. She was curious like Alice and longing like Sylvia. She loved excess, a minimalist she was not. Consider her a Marie Antoinette type (except with empathy,) a lover of celebrations and beautiful, material things. She was a Zelda Fitzgerald, a Virginia Woolf, and maybe even a little bit Holly GoLightly. She was sad and beautiful, intelligent and destructive, sensitive and stubborn. She was hopeful while also depressed. She was addicted to art, youth, beauty, and substances that both numbed and enlightened her. She was enthralled by the sea, felt most herself under the sun, and wanted to see the world. She was obsessed with Ernest Hemingway’s home in Key West and dreamed of having a home just like it, crawling with cats left and right. She was multifaceted, complicated, and passionate. She was an Aries, a creative, a dreamer.
By Kimberly O'Brien5 years ago in Humans
to dream or not to dream
“College is the key that will open all the doors to success and fulfillment of your dreams.” “Only through a good college education will you be able to land your dream job.” These are the statements that guided me throughout my years of high school. What I should have been told is that the hard part is getting into the right college and declaring the right major, the harder part is getting through college and paying for it, but the hardest part is actually landing your dream job after college, especially when you have no idea what your dream job is or if it even exists. I followed all the steps that I was supposed to. I graduated high school with honors, received multiple scholarships, went to a good university, and graduated only one semester late. I thought to myself “the next step is finding the dream job...or at least a job that I’ll enjoy.” Little did I know that only two months after graduating, a worldwide pandemic would wreak havoc on the world as we knew it. People would begin to lose their jobs, their homes, their lives. We would be quarantined inside our respective spaces for months, anxiety-ridden, fearing what the future would hold. Covid was an unknown, unexpected curveball thrown into the mix and unfortunately, we could not ignore the chaos it entailed and the struggles that would follow even a year later.
By Kimberly O'Brien5 years ago in Journal
