Perspective

It's funny how your views on life can change so quickly. It's like one day you're just sitting with friends at lunch and your like, "Holy crap! I'm lucky to be here!" and you don't say it, but you think it and thank quietly to God that you've got them. You hear about the homeless, the friendless, the people who can't be forgiven, and those who were lost and you tell yourself you're one Goddamn lucky person, and be thankful, to be who you are and not a total loser on the street. Even if you were or are, you have things to be thankful for...like being alive.

It's really funny how you read and see those who are less fortunate and reality snaps back into persepective. You can't shield yourself forever from the things that lurk out there in the real world, not the world that we know of that revolves around home and school where you will always be shielded by things that are viewed as "wrong" to the higher ups of our world like gay people and the war that is going to destroy us all.

The thing is, what do we learn from everything we expirience? Well, we learn a lot and what we learn isn't fully shared because death sweeps us away too soon. 100 years, if we live long enough, isn't enough to accomplish everything we'd like to do. Things accumulate over the years of what we'd like to do like be an actor, astronaunt, doctor, enviromentalist, and a super heroe. We don't have time to go back and try to desperately fix our mistakes because real mistakes can't be fixed, only learned from.

Perspective is something you have to play with your entire life until you know that you are fully happy with what you've done. It's something that you will view differently forever until death do we part everyone else and either go to an afterlife or are reincarnated into something else or someone else. Life is a journey and you have somewhat of a lead...don't let it conquer you yet.