Freely

Instructions: study, graduate high school, go to college, graduate college, build your career, marry person of opposite sex, have children. It seems that we all come with this same set of instructions. Instructions that society has hand-delivered. Instructions that falsely represent success and happiness. We are taught that failure to follow these instructions will lead us to the land of nowhere. But I wanna know who made up these rules and who gave them the power to tell us that if we do not live the way that we are being told to live that we will cease to succeed. I want to know. Because I do not believe that in order to be successful, you have to go to college. I do not believe that in order to be happy, you have to marry a man if you're a women and women if you're a man. I do not believe that love was meant to be hated. I do not believe that life was meant to be this way. I do not believe that life was intended to come with an instruction manual. I do not believe that this is how we were meant to live. I believe that life was meant to be lived. I believe that all love is the same love. I believe that you define your own success. I believe that life was meant to be lived - to be lived freely.

Life

Life

A four letter word

One syllable

You live it

You’re a part of it

That little word

Life

Such a simple concept

Life can be amazing

Life can be adventurous

Life can be sad

Life can be cruel

But at the end of the day,

Life is what you make it

That may be cliché

But there’s no denying the truth

Life is about singing in the rain

Life is about taking risks

Life is about looking for the good amongst the bad

Life is about pushing through the hard stuff

Such a simple concept

Life

That little word

You’re a part of it

You live it

One syllable

A four letter word

Life

But at the end of the day,

Life isn’t what you make it

Sometimes, despite your best efforts,
Life destroys you