"I want to draw something that means something to someone. You know, I want to draw blind faith, or a fading summer, or just a moment of clarity. It's like when you go and see a really great band, live for the first time and, you know, and nobody's saying it, but everybody's thinking it, we have something to believe in again. I want to draw that feeling, but I can't. And if I can't be great at it then I don't want to ruin it. It's too important to me." Peyton Sawyer
Have you ever gotten to that point where you think that nothing you do matters? I'm there. I'm there a lot, actually. When am I going to do something that matters to someone? Now, if I was to bring this up to one of my friends, that would tell me, "You matter to me", or something like that. I know that I have impacted people. I've helped make my closest friends who they are now. I've cried and laughed, they've cried and laughed.
Peyton is a character from One Tree Hill (or used to be one). She is a girl with passion. She is passionate about drawing and music and art and expression. She seeks truth. In the episode this quote is from, she is scared to turn in her drawings to a magazine. So Lucas decides to do it for her. She doesn't think that her art matters. Lucas tells her it mattered to him.
I've started to realize that I don't have a lot of passion in my life. I'm trying to find that. To me, it seems that those who have a passion for something, have the greatest impact. It might not change the world or anything, but they have done something to leave a mark. Or, maybe I'm wrong. But either way, I want to have passion. I mean, you can't really be a nerd without having passion, right? I get excited about stuff, but I've noticed that I don't always put much effort into doing whatever it is I'm doing.
I think one of the things that I like about One Tree Hill, is that there is also something to learn from it. Of course, you have to look past all the drama behind the show in order to find it. But there is always at least one quote that sticks out and touches me.
"Hey. Your art matters... it's what got me here." Lucas Scott
3 comments:
I think you will feel so much better once you move in with Lucy and the other girls. I think you're like me and 98% of the world--being alone makes you feel so disconnected and unimportant. I really feel like you're a great person and you mean a lot to me. I wish you could see how great you are. I understand the lack of passion part. I'm that way so much right now. So, I completely understand. I felt the exact same way whenever I watched that episode of One Tree Hill. So know you're not alone in that. LOVE THAT QUOTE.
I love this post! I totally get it! My brother always says that OTH is just another over-dramatic tv show. And in some ways it is, but it is definitely not thoughtless or superficial or contrived, at least not all the time :)
Lol, yeah some of the later episodes I have seen are really dramatic, and almost makes me not want to watch, but there are some good ones there.
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