Sunday, May 07, 2006

... Thank you for the price you've paid...

Life is sweet.

Wouldn't you agree?

Well... No.
Not many of my peers would agree with that cliche.

Most of us are ticking time-bombs, filled to the brim and bursting with angst, depression, alone-ness, self-depreciation.
We tend to focus on the nastier aspects on life, we continue being the narrow-minded people that all of us know we are deep inside, zoned in on our own pain and suffering and depression. Telling others that they're self-centred when we ourselves, are hardly any better.

We somehow seem to forget the love, concern and money that our parents have invested in us, we tend to forget the fun we share with our siblings when we're not fighting, we tend to get irritated with our grandparents or those belonging in the older generation.

Why?

Because we're self-centred and spoilt.
That's why.

We believe that the world owes us all something.
Well, the world owes us nothing. Never did, and never will.

It's time we grasped that fact and learnt to live life with that.
Life is sweet.
But only if we allow the sweetness to seep through to our souls. We'll never ever get the full picture until we start wallowing in our own laughter as opposed to our bitterness and pent-up anger.

We are teenagers. These are supposedly the best times of our lives.
Let's learn to live a little by actually loving life.

We've got the rest of eternity to moan about how depressing our lives are and everything, but we've got so little time to enjoy this sense of freedom and perfection. Teenagers live once and only once, instead of throwing these things away so carelessly, why don't we start building stones for our future?

Instead of wanting only freedom and arguing with our parents about that, we should start talking to them and proving to them that we deserve that freedom.
Instead of whining about how they don't understand us, whine instead about how we don't understand them.
Instead of questioning why our parents can't be more like our idea of perfect parents, question instead why we can't be more like their ideas of perfect kids.
Instead of asking them why they can't trust us, ask ourselves instead why they can't trust us.

At the end of the day, we have most of the answers.
The key to a beautiful, enriching, happy, sweet life is in our pockets.
And the thing that's stopping us from unlocking the door to eternal happiness is our own stopping hand.

To admit facts, we're just too set and old in our beliefs. We make our own suffering and our trials.
We choose to blame others, but never blame the true culprits.
Let us hope then, that we raise our courage and take the first step and plunge into happiness.

Life is sweet.
Let's live life with that sweetness.

Posted by Char at 7:07 PM