What Life Is All About
I have always believed that life is what we make it. You make your own destiny, there is no such thing as pre-destiny. Your choices make you the person you are right now and the person you will be in the future. It is not up to someone or something - your life is up to you. Read through the story below, written by an unknown author, and be enlightened:
Life isn’t about keeping score. It’s not about how many friends you have. Or how many people call you. Or how accepted or unaccepted you are. Not about if you have plans this weekend. Or if you’re alone. It isn’t about who you’re dating, who you use to date, how many people you’ve dated, or if you haven’t been with anyone at all. It isn’t about who you have kissed. It’s not about sex. It isn’t about who your family is or how much money they have. Or what kind of car you drive. Or where you’re sent to school.
It’s not about how beautiful or ugly you are. Or what clothes you wear, what shoes you have on, or what kind of music you listen to. It’s not about if your hair is blonde, red, black, brown, or green. Or if your skin is too light or too dark.
It’s not about what grades you get, how smart you are, how smart everyone else thinks you are, or how smart standardized tests say you are. Or if this teacher likes you, or if this guy/girl likes you. Or what clubs you’re in, or how good you are at “your” sport. It’s not about representing your whole being on a piece of paper and seeing who will “accept the written you”.
But life is about who you love and who you hurt. It’s about who you make happy or unhappy purposefully. It’s about keeping or betraying trust. It’s about friendship, used as sanctity, or as a weapon. It’s about what you say and mean, maybe hurtful, maybe heartening. About starting rumors and contributing to petty gossip. It’s about what judgments you pass and why. And who your judgments are spread to.
It’s about who you’ve ignored with full control and intention. It’s about jealousy, fear, pain, ignorance, and revenge. It’s about carrying inner hate and love, letting it grow and spreading it.
But most of all, it’s about using your life to touch or poison other people’s hearts in such a way that could never occur alone. Only you choose the way these hearts are affected and those choices are what life is all about.
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I’ve been voting for you since the October contest, when I think… you had posted in the FMB forums to ask what others think of your blog, but…
Linda from http://atlindas.com/ quoted this post on her blog today, and it made me proud to have already known you’re a gem.
What a perfect post.
May your life be full of people who make YOU happy purposefully!
Sounds like the “Tyler Durden” philosophy. Of which I approve. Good stuff here Sir. Keep on blogging1
Just wanted to say thank you for this post.
Hi Fracas, thanks for the votes I really did appreciate it and yes, my life is full of beautiful people who bring meaning to my life.
Hi misterwoppit, does sound a bit like the Tyler Durden philosophy.. Actually, I’m a ma’am..
Thank you Linda and for the vote as well.