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Life is so many things. At the base of it, Life is the very beautiful dance of constant death. From the second we are born, we begin to die. We are constantly dying until finally, we go cold. The trick is to dance. A candle is the most beautiful just before it is snuffed out, and that is what we need to capture in life.
Life is chaos. There is no order of events, no calendar to plan life to. There is nothing separating one day from being absolutely incredible and then incredibly mediocre, and then nothing following the next day from being a sharp end as a bus turns a corner too fast and crushes you.
Life is scary. So many talk about risks and taking them, but if you ever come to see those risks you might find it harder. From moving out to take on life (a very foolish notion, by the way. You are to life what a twelve year old girl is to Mike Tyson) to marriage to having children to trying to be successful, life is great at tripping you up. And once you stumble, you become afraid of what falling is like.
But most of all...Life is beautiful. It's scary as hell, completely chaotic and the path of death, but that's what makes it beautiful. Everything changes and nothing changes back, so what you see and experience will always be special to you.
And that, to me, is life.
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Some are pretty scared of death. I envy them, because for me...it's life that freaks me out.
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