DISQUS

Cute Is What We Aim For: Shaant - When I was a child, climbing was my favorite thing...

  • muffinmix75 · 11 months ago
    I know you're there too because you updated twitter 5 seconds ago :D
  • Ashu · 11 months ago
    lol thats funny.
  • andashleysayss · 11 months ago
    Aw. Childhood.

    I'm scared to grow up.
    I still act like I'm seven...sort of.
    I'm almost 16.
    :(
  • Ryan · 11 months ago
    I've been afraid of flying for the longest time, scared I'll fall too hard to the ground. But just tonight I realised that, if you don't fly, you'll never see all the great things in life.

    <3
  • TroyO · 11 months ago
    I remember when I was little, even at about 3 years old, I had a huge crush on this girl. I spent years chasing this girl until she moved away when I was in middleschool. Naive, but optimistic; Happy but unaware. Isn't that the way to be?
  • TroyO · 11 months ago
    Oh, Katie just reminded me. I also buried about 25 dollars worth of bills and change (which was a lot for me as a child). When I remembered half a year later, I went to my sandbox in the backyard and dug up the torn fragments of a twenty dollar bill.
  • Krysti Alison · 11 months ago
    I loved the same things too.
    but the only diffrence is now that i'm older,
    I still do what i used to do.
    After a splinter in the leg from a bad fall from the tree.
    haha I got back up(after coming from the hospital)
    I climbed that tree again it makes me feel young.
    I love that.
  • SamiJade · 11 months ago
    i put the sister in sustained.
    ha.
    it didn't work.
    +:
    snap.
    i'll never grow up.
  • katiee · 11 months ago
    I used to dig for dinosaur bones in my back yard...
    I was convinced that underneath this ginormous tree back there, there was the reminants of a T-Rex.
    I found a fish fossil once...it was the highlight of my childhood. Really.

    And now, even when I'm 18, I'm scared shitless of my backyard after dark. Don't know why, but I just can't go back there...weird.
  • Katiee's friend · 11 months ago
    cool writing. great art. sounds like art. :)
  • vballbabe22 · 11 months ago
    I remeber when i was 6 i would always be climbing on stuff all around my house even the fence next door and the tree in my back yard
  • ~ernie_bernie~ · 11 months ago
    you sound like me.
    i learned to climb trees at
    get this
    age 2!
    imagine being a mother and watching
    your 2 year old up in a tree. i would piss my pants.
    when i was 5 i threw a tantrum
    and climbed a flagpole.
    they almost called the fire dept to get me down.
    then they bribed me with a candy bar.
    and when we played kick the can with the neighborhood kids
    i was the one sitting on top of the light pole.
    wow you brought back some memories.
    if only i could go back 9 years to when i was 10.
    playing in the park at age 8 climbing to the top of the biggest pine tree
    in the park just to prove i could.
    racing the tallest kid up the basket ball hoop during recess.
    i won, of course.
    i was a little monkey!
    too bad im afraid of heights now :(
    those were the good old days.
    *sigh*
  • Maddie · 11 months ago
    wow this takes me back to my childhood, which was like 2 years ago haha. i like your perspective on live, it makes me think.
  • wexarexlost · 11 months ago
    chills like woah.
    ha i like this one a lot.
    define 'it'
    and what do u mean by ur old ways?
    explain por favor?
    anyway if u got this right, i think u still got 'it'
    ur freakin talented and dont let anyone tell u otherwise
  • no we're not · 11 months ago
    yea
  • JohannaDudder · 11 months ago
    I have 35 acres of trees. Come climb with me.
  • madison · 11 months ago
    I was all about the arts and crafts when I was younger.
    I was the queen of play-doh, making sure colors weren’t mixed and pieces didn’t dry out.
    And it was only when my dad told me that I used to write songs that I remembered those days out on the lawn. We had a red swing hanging from the tree and I remember sitting there singing something sweet and drafting it into a spiral.
    Before our tree house was created, we’d drive our play-school car up to the trunk and hop on top and climb into the big tree in our backyard. We weren’t allowed, but it only made it more fun to break our bounds.
    Coloring books were all the rage, and my play-doh title coincided with crayons and pastels.
    I was never into the Barbies and hid my dolls after awhile. In my closet was where they stayed.
    Easy-bake oven was more my thing. Either that or making gooey creepy crawlies with my brother in the basement. That’s where we made bottles of colored sand and made a mess with out being disciplined.
    And my favorite thing about going to Grandma’s was painting ceramics that she’d pick and listening to tapes in the car she still has today.
    Those certainly were the good old days.
  • madison's friend · 11 months ago
    :) cute writing
  • madison · 11 months ago
    I forgot to mention that after reading that I googled dogwood. So beautiful. We had one in our front yard but it never made it. Now we have a pear tree that still struggles to grow.
    And by the way, it's okay to fall. Isn't that what life's about? Taking chances. If we fall, we get right back on our feet and the process repeats. Mistakes are where the greatest lessons we learn come from.
  • Jessica · 11 months ago
    That was amazing! I loved being courageous like that. I was messing around playing cops and robbers ha yes cops and robbers with my brother and fell off a car. It wasn't moving either. Ha good times. I got stitches on my eyebrow.
  • Sarah_Cute · 11 months ago
    You.amaze.me : )
    You are of the outside thinking.

    I dig it : )
  • Holly · 11 months ago
    So have you like jumped off the deep end? I know we are the ones obsessively looking at your public profile, your updates, blogs, and sometimes maybe private poetry but that last line is just…whoa. Is all the attention from women who see a dazzling rockstar and swear up and down that they love the soul inside you starting to get too you? Is the plastic, marry me Shaant requests from 15 years old starting to make you sick ? Lol. I’ve been a fan of your band for awhile and even if some of your lyrics are, maybe…at times shallow on the first record, I still love it because it’s you. I feel like I want more of the person I connected with through music so I watch and I check and it’s frankly…cruel to you. You have no privacy, nothing is personal, and every little piece of you is analyzed to bits so some bitchy plastic 17, 18, 19, 15, year old can try to hit you up…Really I feel like stunned by the last line of that. Or is it all the harsh criticism that teenagers with no fucking lives getting to you and you really don’t mind marriage proposals? Lol.
    The poem is lovely, it makes me think about this time I pretended I was Marry Poppins with an umbrella and jumped off a mini roof only to fall, not fly to my doom…Lol. I got the wind knocked out of me and a permanent fear of heights. Did I mention that I had a beach towel for a cape? I don’t know why since it wasn’t apart of the Marry Poppins attire, but it had butterflies on it so it had to work into my equation somehow right? Oh and I had Birch tree’s in my front yard…I grew up with a thing for Robert Frost…

    I said my piece but I think that maybe you should really…and I mean REALLY stop looking at the bad shit annoying teenagers post. Because after all it is usually teenagers and when it’s not, who the fuck cares? There are people who respect your band and love your music. There will be people who hate your shit and want to stomp on your nuts because it makes them feel better about themselves but at the end of the day it’s just another fuckface asshole. Also try to not freak out in a Cobain-esk way and go crazy on your fans because they have become the epitome of all you hate. Sorry for the long and possibly unnecessary comments to things you might not even be dealing with. However, when I read your posts online, like the girls I chastise, I get the feeling you watch us, just as much as we watch you…and frankly dude it kind of creeps me out. Myspace, Tumbler...the internet…is not reality. What people say online I think has to be taken with a grain of salt because it’s the internet, and anyone can be on it, including the village idiot. Good luck with your multiple forums and posts, I hope to catch your show in Columbus.
  • Yup those are me :*) · 11 months ago
    I love Shaant. It's as simple as that. Please don't make fun of me. I always said since back then that he's like at Britney Spears status for me. If only he'd be in tabloids for me I'd be happier.
  • Holly's friend · 11 months ago
    :) I'll reply later
  • tasha · 11 months ago
    i miss the past sometimes too. :/ there are certain days and moments that i wish i could go back to. growing up isn't so always so cute.
  • jessicaknowles · 11 months ago
    i used to be a dreamer when i was little. i always thought there was something great life waiting for me when i grew up, that no matter what i'd be so happy.

    heres something you dont know about me, my father died when i was young. like before i was 2.
    when i was like 7, i remember there was one time i was so convinced that he wasn't dead. i had this huge story in my head that no matter what he was out there living a life and there was some mysterious reasoning that he had to leave our family. like he was in witness protection or some secret agent. i know that's so silly now. but i was so sure one day, he'd come back for me. because he loved and missed me so much. so if i got all his clothes out of the boxes in our basement and slept with his picture under my pillow he'd come back. i'd give anything for that to be true.

    and i used to constantly have these dreams of like things we used to do together and a place we had gone on vacation. just a beach in Mexico, but it was the same dream over and over. and i used to think he was trying to make me remember him, so i wouldn't forget.

    i was way too busy chasing dreams and ghosts and believing in magic and shooting stars to really be courageous, and i guess that reflects on me now. but i don't know..
    i shared. and you probably wont read this. and i'm probably the most depressing person ever. but i'll be smiling when i see you next.
  • Jessica's friend · 11 months ago
    :) I'll reply later
  • Nia · 11 months ago
    I wish I was carefree again.
  • lilmissedgex · 11 months ago
    i think your reflecting on those days becuase thats when life was simple..and you miss those days..don't we all :)
  • Ashu · 11 months ago
    wow. you in your youth reminded me of my neighbor's daughter and my older bro. they climbed really tall trees. the neighbors daughter was really good at it too! she did it often, never got hurt. they had this fruit tree in their back yard and she climbed it to retrieve the fruit --I dont know the fruits name in English.

    ugh. why do you know I'm here???
    lol.

    well, I remember I use to Hate getting dirty. I dont know if I was conditioned by my mom to feel that way, or if I was just a cleen kid. I'm not sure. And because I avoided getting dirty, I also took other precautions like avoiding doing things that would pose a threat to my well being. aha! I was quite responsible. maybe a bit too responsible...etc

    I made good decisions:
    when I was young my parents made me attend madrasa. so one day I was on my way out when I ran into the teacher by door. he grabs my scarf and lights a light under it as tho to burn it.
    my response: I blew out the flame.
    others response: they fought to get their scarf out of his hand.

    yikes! too much info. I dont want to reflect any further
  • Rumina's Friend · 11 months ago
    wake up wake up wake up wake. its me its me its me

    sighs can't breathe :*).

    I like your story. :*). How much of mine's is true, it doesn't matter because it got me to you :*).

    :D omg I LOVE ME :*)
  • suffrage · 11 months ago
    ugh I bet I got made fun of for that 8/. sighs. So my response wasn't normal 8/. But 8/. sighs. I'd like to say that I'm smart too and what if I was like the prettiest too? I promise I didn't do anything 8/. I felt like I was prayed on :D. 8/. ugh :*********(

    sighs. w/e 8/. At least you like, like saving me from that 8/. YOU DO. 8/. I saw the Barbie in the closet thing too 8/. Was that also for me?

    :D funny. I'm afraid that I might be pretty? GASPS :D.

    :*) Great personality I suffer from that :*).
  • right to vote. · 11 months ago
    :D aha! a ho nia will you ever stop with these looney tunes
  • :) urahonia 8/. · 11 months ago
    8/ I got hit on today at the bookstore 8/. I was like purchasing my Philosophy books an the cashier was like, "Oh sweet you're a Phil major, Oooh 'Doomsday' and 'The Origin of Satan.'"

    8/. He was hitting on me. What is it about me? :D I want to know?
  • Lst1 · 11 months ago
    no. I had music on my mind. a ho nia is still you lol :D

    aha. what is it about you? are you sure your name isnt Mary? cus its already been established that theres Something about Mary.
    well on thingx for sure...you maybe wasting your time with philosophy and ballet get into something that utilizes your looks more aHOnia and that involves sales. like Fashion Merchandizing.
    the classes are ridiculously easy and more than anything else they want experience. Ho ho I have faith in you :D
  • lst1? · 11 months ago
    "the classes are ridiculously easy and more than anything else they want experience. Ho ho I have faith in you :D"

    :( but I'm not good at anything?
  • no!!!!!! · 11 months ago
    omg 36 minutes ago I'm here too!!!!! 4:30am!!!!!!
  • 5:15pm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! · 11 months ago
    ohemgee
  • Shaant's Mon · 11 months ago
    that's cute!!!! shaant I'm not hurt (it was inspired by me)

    omg 8) I'm not hurt do you know that?
  • pofc3 · 11 months ago
    I used to be a lot more creative when I was in school. I used to draw and write. I'll be 22 in a couple of months. I still don't know what I want to do in life. And what the hell do you look forward to after 22?? What turning 30?? Pfft. Forget that noise. The last 4 years have went by so fast, I got so caught up in work, that I didn't even try to navigate my life in a direction I would want to go in... Where to start??
  • pofc3's friend · 11 months ago
    omg yeah. My life since 05 I don't know where time went from then and now 8/. REALLY 8/. I feel like I didn't accomplish anything during those 4 years 8/. I still vividly remember HS. sighs. Sorry I can't artisticly reply to you, what if you meant something else?
  • pofc3 · 11 months ago
    Eh, made a friend already... No need to be artsy. But yeah, I've pretty much wasted nearly every bit of time that has passed since HS. But what do you plan to do with your life when you don't know what you're supposed to want out of it?? Is happiness and love real?? Or just an illusion you seek out for the rest of your existence?? And when you settle and aren't sattisfied, do you just fantasize about what could have been and try to make do?? Yeah, fork that hullabaloo too...
  • pofc3's friend · 11 months ago
    :D oh that was good hold on let me think
  • pofc3's friend · 11 months ago
    8) Oooh "REST of your existence" DEEP.
  • pofc3's friend · 11 months ago
    No really :), "REST of your existence." I wanted you to expand me.

    Fine I'll do it :*). Ok, REST--your mind is constantly, if you're smart, constantly trying to make yourself better. You want rest, that's what all humans yearn for.
  • pofc3's friend · 11 months ago
    You're only existing when you are at rest. I want rest. I'm always like, is this ever going to get better?

    It's REST.
  • Kenzanti · 11 months ago
    wow that was so cute <3
    & you dont sound like youre the most depressing person ever,
    just like a daughter who wants her daddy back
    its just normal
    (:
  • Kenzanti · 11 months ago
    uh that was a reply to Jessicaknowles' comment btw..
  • RamshackleAnts · 11 months ago
    You're missing an "o" in the 5th line... "There were none toO tall and I was not afraid to fall."
  • RamshackleAnt's Friend · 11 months ago
    You're smart to have noticed. Thank you.
  • RamshackleAnts · 11 months ago
    You're very welcome..
  • deee · 11 months ago
    when i was a kid.. we had this whole town with the rest of the kids on the street. now thati think about it.. it was pretty legitimate.. we had a currency (bottle tops)- but there were crooks who just added their own, we had a free market, right to entrepreneurship and i government with check and balance like properties.. hah i was an adventurous kid.. me and my cousinn robert had this orginization hah it was just me and him and it was called bdp (bob dole police) idk we were like 5, but bob dole was the enemy (i didnt even like republicans back then!) hah and we would go around with cap guns and go on missions, i wish i still did stuff like that... i was a tomboy.. adventures were my thing and rugrats was my favorite show because they were badasss.
  • Aileen · 11 months ago
    Too*. (Grammar freak)

    This is stunning as usual, thanks for inspiring us with your writing. I know it certainely makes me smile.
  • Gemma916 · 11 months ago
    "I put the sister in sinister."???

    I am not afraid of losing my childhood innocence
    Even as I turn back to reminisce
    Upon the days without this reticence
    Upon which I now rely.

    <3
  • jena! · 11 months ago
    hey, i climbed everything, too! ....still do!
    except once i got stuck in the tree so they cut it down so i could no longer climb it :(
  • :) · 11 months ago
    I bet I know most of these people here. So sorry I didn't get to you.
  • Karima · 11 months ago
    ahh the good 'ol days.
    being able to live care free.
    & when your actions almost never had consequences!
    oh how i wish i could go back.
    atleast for a moment :)
  • tess_LALA :D · 11 months ago
    that raccoon is freaking me out :|
  • blg_is_my_music · 11 months ago
    thats beautiful

    ily
  • rosa · 11 months ago
    what would we all do without shaant?
  • Santa Rosa · 11 months ago
    nothing
  • Santa Rosa · 11 months ago
    Oh go look at the previous post. Someone was being mean to people like us. It was one of the last posts about 14 yr olds. Go beat him up for me :(.
  • Penne Rosa · 11 months ago
    who who?
    uma go knock his/her ass out!

    ahah :D
  • Santa Rosa · 11 months ago
    :D thanks, I"m too scared to.
  • NikkineoN · 11 months ago
    I used to climb a big ass tree near our house, but one fine summer day my fat-ass brother broke one of the branches and now we can't get up the tree. :[ I miss the old days too. Growing up is a blessing and a curse, but I think I'll have to do it sooner or later. What about you Shaant? Do you think you've grown up?
  • Also Dave's · 11 months ago
    Dave :), It's been exactly a month since you last wrote for me. Go write some more. I really do like reading your philosophical stuff. I really do. You're as smart as me. We're meant to be. I already got Shaant, I want you too :*). And Jeff loved me from the start :*). Hi Jeff :*). Go play me some Pepper Songs :*).
  • AvvaRae · 11 months ago
    childhood is bliss, or so they say. sounds like you had a pretty good day :)
  • Melanie · 11 months ago
    I used to climb every tree I could find. =]
    In a dress no less. XP
    I tried again recently, and my body just doesn't work like it used to. =/
  • love. · 11 months ago
    and now i make it sixty-nine, giggity!
  • Antonia · 11 months ago
    :) I'm 70
  • Shaantonia · 11 months ago
    your new pic on the cute myspace -- everyone's reaching something FOR ME!
  • ashley · 11 months ago
    no wayy. thats all i used to do is climb. anything possible haha i was an odd child. :p
  • Heather Sullivan · 11 months ago
    I am afraid for what the future beholds
    because I never know what is to come
    Have you ever noticed
    your plans never go as planned
    or that when you least expect it
    something huge happens
    The future can hold good thing or bad
    I could win a brand new car
    or I could lose someone close to me
    The future is always just a second away
    They say to look foward to the future
    for good things are to come
    but they never warn you
    that the bad may come to
    We all want a nice paying job
    A nice house
    And a happy family
    but we cant all get what we want
    and our plans may be to have all those things
    but that goes back to the beginning
    where plans never go as planned
    Yes I am excited about the future
    but at the same time I wish I could freeze time
    Im afraid that my future wont go as I plan
    what do I do?
    Should I be afraid?
    or should I face my fear?
    I kinda have no choice
    for the future is passing by without us even realizing it
    if you think about it our past was at one point and time
    our future
    and somethings were good
    while others were bad
    so I guess the best I can do
    is sit back and watch
    as the future speeds by
    and as I do so
    I will hope and I will dream
    that my future will be atleast close to what I plan
    I know it wont be directly on
    but I hope it is close enough.
  • I don't feel good · 11 months ago
    All those are stolen thoughts. You don't own them.