MIKROKOSMOS

 Two teenage cancer kids.  One tragic love story. Hazel Grace Lancaster meets Augustus 'Gus' Waters at cancer support group in a church basement, talks about how Gus shouldn't be afraid of oblivion, how his pack of cigarettes' is a metaphor, and watches a movie. “ May I see you again?” he asked. There was an endearing nervousness in his voice. I smiled. “Sure.” “Tomorrow?” he asked. “Patience, grasshopper,” I counseled. “You don’t want to seem overeager. “Right, that’s why I said tomorrow,” he said. “I want to see you again tonight. But I’m willing to wait all night and much of tomorrow.” I rolled my eyes. “I’m serious,” he said. “You don’t even know me,” I said. I grabbed the book from the center console. “How about I call you when I finish this?” “But you don’t even have my phone number,” he said. “I strongly suspect you wrote it in this book.” He broke out into that goofy smile. “And you say we don’t know each other.” ~John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, Pages 36, 37...

  Growing up, my favorite Disney princess was Cinderella. As a child, her shimmering blue dress caught my eye. I wanted to go for a ride on fairy godmother’s carriage. I wanted to watch her dance with the prince all night- As an adult, my idea of Cinder-Ella has changed. More questions have popped up. I’m questioning the ‘magic’ I grew up watching on screen. This is my rendition of the aftermath of the royal ball, my ideas and opinions and unrealistic Barbie magic that I no longer believe, but look back on fondly. As the clock struck midnight, Ella transformed back into her true self. She managed to escape Prince Charming, successfully hiding the fact that she was not a princess of the land, but the servant girl of her evil stepmother. Which brings us to our question. The fairy godmother’s spell was such that all of Cinderella’s magic belongings would turn into her own by the strike of midnight, and true to the spell, her clothes were once again turned into rags, her animals ...

CONTROVERSY [NOUN] pronounced /kon.tra.ver.si/  DICTIONARY DEFINTION: PROLONGED PUBLIC DISAGREEMENT OR HEATED DISCUSSION. Ahem. I hope all my lovely readers are having a wonderful day as amazing and brilliant as you are! Like the quote goes, "Say what you mean, but don't say it mean" Debating about controversial topics, having 'prolonged public disagreements' and 'heated discussions'  is a very fun pastime and can lead to a solid exchange of ideas and help to see the problem from different perspectives than to yours, unless you have serious anger issues 😂😂 Today's little post of MIKROKOSMOS features a couple of fun controversial ideas and topics of the modern world and personal opinions of the author. As always, constructive criticism is welcome in the comments! (Ya'll be nice to each other though *warning sign*) 1. CEREAL COMES FIRST, NOT MILK I am one of those weird human beings who start the day off with a strong coffee, and sometimes, a smoot...