Teenage Dream (because I'm totally awesome like that <.<)

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about wishes and dreams and that whole situation. A few images and song snatches keep circling in my head:

“The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is a little ‘umph’!” ~Fischer, Bones

This quote is so maddening. I can’t stand inspirational quips like it. However, given the person speaking it, it's all fine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=291ET6Py6H8 Woah, so that was weird. That’s not Bloody Mary. 

Also this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVFw9_xgicI

I have lots of dreams, some of them more preposterous than others. I mean--I’d like to be the world’s (female) Billy Gibbons.

I’d like to write fantastic, beautiful songs that stick around forever and ever.

I’d like to be a great writer and essayist.

I’d like to be a traveler, across seas and over land.

I’d like to be a Tolkien scholar: get lost in the words and epics of his world, be consumed by a fascination for history.

I don’t know how many of these things will come to fruition, but I think it’s good to try for them. After all, it’s life, and unless you believe in re-incarnation (which I’m convinced has some true aspects), you only get 75 or so years to really live it, if you’re lucky, and if you don’t count the “establishment” era of the toddler/adolescent years. These are just some random thoughts. Though I think, being a teenager, they’re very relevant. At times like these, we teenagers are faced with SO MANY THINGS TO BE, and we just want to be everything, but since that’s not really possible, we’re forced to make choices and narrow down our images of happiness. We’ll all get a slice of happiness no matter what, but so many things depend on strings of choices that you make throughout your life. Left or right turns, yes’s or no’s, building bridges and burning them. And I’,m at this point where I’m so overwhelmed with what to do with this thing that is all mine, it’s ALL mine, that I just sit and stare into space and wonder what I truly want. I know-from bloggers and youtubers who are on the cusp of big career paths or graduation-that everyone goes through this at some point. I just wonder how I’ll emerge from it. 
Just today, I came across this lovely video. Basically it's everything I've said in this post, in 3 minutes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BysBU673hTI