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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 occurred alone. Only you choose the way these
hearts are affected and those choices are what life is
all about. |