What is life?

What IS life? Life is life. Life is full of life and death, full of laughter and tears, disappointment and being proud, black, white, and gray. Life is about doing the correct next thing when you get to a certain point. When you’re old enough to realize you have responsibilities, or you think you do, when in reality, you’re just being prepared for something you can’t really be fully prepared for.

Life is coming home locking yourself into your bathroom, turning on your shower to zone out your cries, life is laughing with some good friends until you can’t breathe. Life is stressing what you’re going to tell your parents that you got a C on your report card, life is the feeling you get when your dogs and cats are happy to see you when you get home, life is watching the news of someone getting away with rape, life is how your heart sinks when you see your partner with someone else, life is the butterflies you get in your stomach when you’re going on a first date, life is when you’re halfway to school realizing you forgot you left your homework at home, life is the ups, downs, and everything inbetween. So how do you truly prepare for life? How do you prepare for your first heartbreak, how do you prepare for getting bullied, how do you prepare for when you start to obsess over what to eat and what to not to eat, how do you prepare for that feeling you get when you’ve harmed yourself intentionally, how do you prepare? There’s so many things to prepare for that you can’t. Sexuality, Love, Sex, and Emotions. Even if you can prepare, not everyone can afford it. And it is not be a one size fits all situation. Any addiction, any need, any obsession, there’s therapy, medications, and treatments. Not everyone will want the help, not everyone will understand, not everyone will be ready, and not everyone will be able to do it or afford it.

There are people who are crying because their daughter has left due to a drug addiction, there are people who are trading their bodies for just one hit of their drug of choice. There are people who are making love in their bedrooms, there are people who are dealing with their hearts aching for their lost loved ones. There are people who are looking at someone thinking “I love you”, there are people who are handing their partner divorce papers. There are people who are pulling over to save a starving dog on the side of the road, there are people who are beating up their wife and children. There are people who are laughing , there are people are crying. There are people who are meeting their children 18 years later, there are people who are meeting their parents 18 years later. Everyone has a story. Everyone deserves to be heard. How is this related to life? Because life is about people not being heard, being laughed at, being shamed, tortured, killed, pushed around, not believed, violated, and the list goes on. This is life.

You can never fully prepare for life, but it doesn’t hurt to try. Some people are blessed to have caring parent(s) to try and help, parents are humans too. They try the best that they can, they do the best that they know how to. Parents deal with our constant crankiness, our laziness, our tears, our sickness, our health, our bills, our heartbreak, our addictions, they’re there until they can’t handle it anymore. We take them for granted, we use them, we manipulate them, and are shocked when they draw a line of yes and no. There are people who aren’t always lucky with parents, while some might have other family members or a different family, there are those who don’t even have anyone or anything. There are relying on no one but themselves. Never judge a book by it’s cover. You never know if they are lonely.

There are so many things in the world that don’t have a spotlight on them. Rape, poverty, starving animals, wars, killing unnecessarily (humans or animals ), brainwash, dangers, women being in fear of men behind them, hatred, but instead we focus on the materials of life. Newest technology, viral videos, reality shows, “beauty”, who’s having sex with who, who is best dressed, who can do something best, the flaws of people, relationships that don’t affect them at all. Humans obsess over things they shouldn’t and blow off the things that they should. People misread almost everything, Everyone deserves a second chance doesn’t mean third, fifth, or thirtieth chance. People change doesn’t mean they have. Treat others the way you want to be treated doesn’t mean to keep letting them push you over. Boys will be boys doesn’t mean the girls need to learn how to dress modest or not “distract” males. Transexual/Transvestites are people. Gay people are people. African Americans, muslims, Chinese, people are people. Love is love. If it doesn’t affect you, then leave it alone.

Life is figuring out what your life is. Life is trying to make the right decision everyday.

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