Stronger

You know the bed feels warmer,
Sleeping here alone,
You know I dream in color,
And do the things I want.
You think you got the best of me
Think you had the last laugh
Bet you think that everything good is gone.

Think you left me broken down
Think that i'd come running back
Baby you don't know me, cause you're dead wrong.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone.
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, Myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone.
You heard that I was starting over with someone new,
They told you I was moving on over you,
You didn't think that I'd come back ,i'd come back swinging
You try to break me but you see

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
stand a little taller
doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone.
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
doesn't mean I'm over cause your gone.
what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, stronger
Just me, myself and I
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller 
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone

Thanks to you I got a new thing started
Thanks to you I'm not the broken hearted
Thanks to you I'm finally thinking 'bout me
You know in the end the day I left was just my beginning..... in the end...
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
doesn't mean I'm over cause you gone.


What doesnt kill you makes you stronger, strongerJust me, Myself and IWhat doesnt kill you makes you strongerStand a little tallerDoesn't mean I'm lonely when Im alone.

From Trash to Treasures

If any of my family reads this, I might be in deep shit, but at the moment, I do not care!
I was looking through some junk at my Grams, and I found a purple gemstone, it was a little dusty and dull, I figured its synthetic.
I found a ring, missing a stone, and the setting prongs are a bit bent/broken, but I found that the gem fit into the setting, so I cleaned them both, and affixed the gen to the setting - it looks pretty good (will insert pictures later when I take some)   I got quite a surprise when I got up this morning, see, I went to bed wearing a ring with a purple gemstone, but when I woke up this morning, the stone was a pretty blue-ish green !!!
I was perplexed, as it turns out, the gem I now own, is Alexandrite; a gemstone known for its color changing properties-according to Wikipedia:  Alexandrite, a strongly pleochroic (trichroic) gem, will exhibit emerald green, red and orange-yellow colors depending on viewing direction in partially polarised light. However, its most distinctive property is that it also changes color in artificial (tungsten/halogen) light compared to daylight. The color change from red to green is due to strong absorption of light in a narrow yellow portion of the spectrum, while allowing large bands of blue-greener and red wavelengths to be transmitted. Which of these prevails to give the perceived hue depends on the spectral balance of the illumination. Typically, alexandrite has an emerald-green color in daylight (relatively blue illumination of high color temperature) but exhibits a raspberry-red color in incandescent light(relatively yellow illumination).


Mine is a Brazillian Alexandrite, known for their purple hue in incandescent light - so it looks like a light amethyst in 'fake light' and like a blue/green in sunlight.


Neat.
and apparently quite valuable :)

The Unhappy “Christian”

The Unhappy “Christian”

Question

Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life - well, valuable, but small - and sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this cosmic question out into the void. So good night, dear void.