“Sometimes you need to die in order to truly live. Some of us are destined to accomplish amazing things to improve this world. Some will be good, others will be bad. Everything happens for a reason no matter how good or ill intention it may be. We’re all bound by a spiritual contract. We all have a mission to accomplish. With some, society will only see the bad. It’s life. If everything were perfect and well-received, life wouldn’t be worth living. You need to rediscover the spirit inside of your soul. Sometimes it takes catastrophic events to bring out your true self. We need to make choices, we need to meet people, and we need to make mistakes. In the end, it all leads you down the path of rediscovering who you truly are. People come and go, people live and die. Man or woman, we’re all just people. We’re all lost souls who strive to figure out our identities. We all hit dead-ends from time to time and we all feel a sense of doubt. But at the end of the day, we all make the world go round.
We all love someone. Some are very distant, some are very close but in the end, it’s the thought that counts the most. Knowing that special someone is always there for you even if you can’t physically see or touch them makes all the difference in the world. Love is the most powerful emotion known to mankind. Without love, what are we? Monsters. Demons. Rebels. We’re like fish fresh out of water. We’re thrown into an environment that’s foreign to us. We need to learn how to walk, talk, eat, read, and write. We need to learn consequences, we need to earn responsibility, we need to understand that this environment doesn’t always go the way we want it and at sometimes we get the short end of the stick. We need to make and learn from our own problems and overcome obstacles. Some challenges are very easy, some could take decades to overcome. It’s all part of being alive.
You can strive and strive to be the best. We can give it our all and still not be in the position that we dreamed of. There will always be someone better than us, that’s the way the cards are dealt. You can have everything you ever wanted and still feel empty inside. You can have hundreds of friends and still feel lonely. You can have millions of dollars and still feel as worthless as the homeless on the street. It doesn’t matter how many possessions you have or how much work you accomplished, what matters is what you’ve learned and how you’ve applied that to your surrounding communities. Some of us are naturally nice, some of us are naturally beautiful, some of us are naturally miserable, and some of us are naturally depressing. No matter what our traits and appearances consist of, we all have one thing in common: We’re all searching for love, and we’re all searching for ourselves and through good and bad circumstances, we discover that. And that, humans, is the meaning of life. That is why we’re sent here and that is why we live and we die. We’re all destined to change something, big or small, good or bad. We’re all just people and some of us check out early. It’s not always something personal, it’s in our contracts.
Times will get hard, there’s no way to avoid that but we always manage to overcome the bad no matter how grim and catastrophic it may be. Everyone has a purpose and it’s up to you to discover that purpose. Close your eyes, drift away, and follow the signs. With each passing second you’re slowly making your way closer to your home. You just need to find you. Don’t focus on the bullshit that’s bringing you down, instead focus on the simple things. Life’s too short for grudges or regrets. Make the most out of what you have, even if what you have is very little. I’ve shown all kinds of ways of making something out of nothing. Now it’s your turn. This is your day. This is your time to shine and this is my final contribution.
Always be yourself no matter how awkward or uncomfortable it may feel. If you can do all that then you’ll shine brighter than the brightest stars in the night sky. Don’t give up just because it’s too hard or out of your league. Keep trying. If you have the passion and the determination to do something awesome, what could possibly be standing in your way of achieving that goal? If you can overcome the bad and keep moving forward then you’ll be on your way to bigger and better things. Don’t just sit in the back of the room and let the front row get the prize. Stand out, be heard no matter how scary it might seem. If there’s something you truly want, go out and get it. Nothing lasts forever, not the good nor the evil but what you’ve accomplished will forever be immortalized through the ages. The living make the world turn but the dead make the world live.” -
Randy Stair
Makes me wish he took his own advice.
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Animals are people; We can eat.