A Mid Week Pick-Me-Up #5

Hello!

Since going to university my confidence has massively grown and my best friend likes to constantly remind me how proud of me she is (she's a cutie). I think this quote in particular is something I need to recognise and act on more to keep my confidence levels edging up!

"A simple "hello" could lead to a million things" - Unknown

I've always, as in my entire life, been that shy girl that doesn't talk to anyone and just muddles through, doing as I'm told and being ignored... Not going to lie, I liked that method a lot through high school! Now I'm at uni though, I need to be more confident and talkative and actually say hello to people because otherwise I'm going to be one lonely person.

The thing is, all I need to say is one little world, "hello", and I could meet some amazing people but, as I'm sure you know, I seriously over-think everything, so I sit and think I should say "hello" but what if they don't want to talk to me or they're perfectly fine without me butting in etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. They probably don't care if I say hello or not, they probably haven't even given it a thought but we could all find some amazing people in this world if we just say that one simple little greeting to people, no matter where you come from in the world, there is one word in any language that could be the start of a beautiful friendship.

So today's ending is going to be the same as the beginning.

Hello!

Katie x

Have you read the previous Mid Week Pick-Me-Up's?

A Mid Week Pick-Me-Up

A Mid Week Pick-Me-Up #2

A Mid Week Pick-Me-Up #3

A Mid Week Pick-Me-Up #4

To Love Or Not To Love?

Hello!

You would think, as a Literature student, I should love all Literature and should especially have an appreciation for Shakespeare, buuuut I don't.

In fact, I have more of a hatred for Shakespeare than a love for him.

I have read a large majority of his work, having studied it since I was about thirteen, including: 

Much Ado About Nothing

Othello

Macbeth

As You Like It

A Midsummer's Night Dream

Hamlet

And, of course, Romeo and Juliet (who hasn't read that? Or at least watched the movie? Not many I bet) 

There are plenty more I've read too but this list is getting too long already.

 I can tell you which ones of those is a tragedy, which a comedy, or which is a mixture of both but I can't say I genuinely enjoyed any of them.

The fact that it takes me longer to decipher what he's actually trying to say than it does to read the whole play from back to front is probably a big reason for my disliking of his work. 

When I've seen performances of the play, although they're still not the best thing I've ever seen, I haven't minded them so much but I feel like all I do when I'm studying the book is try to get my head around the words used and then I end up not knowing what's going on because I've spent too long on translating the language!

Don't get me wrong, Shakespeare sounds like he was an awesome dude and he definitely had a lot of imaginative, creative ideas, for his time, but I don't get why he's still considered to be so great and why his writing is so prestigious... Just my opinion though.

I'd love to know what you think?

Katie x