Take this to your grave

I'm listening to this album, but that's not what this post is about. This is about every little thing we take to our graves that we shouldn't. We ask for so many things in life out of other people. But do we ever take enough time to look in the mirror and ask the things that we should to ourselves? It almost seems like we just want to want change. We don't ACTUALLY want it.

We if we looked in the mirror? What if instead of trying to tackle all of these other problems that society throws on us, we looked at ourselves and asked if we were okay? We took some time to look at our faults, and come to terms with them. To think about the things we don't like, and to figure out how to love them about us or try to change them. We don't do this enough. We just don't take time. I'm lucky that I'm in a place where I can now do this. I can go sit by the river, stare into the water, and just think about life. No book, no people, no music. Just me and my thoughts. Can you do this? Can you find a place that you feel relaxed in, and take time to think about things? Of course you can! Will you? That's up to you.

You can ask something to a friend 1,000 times. The answer was inside you before you ever asked the first time. You just never took the time to look. We don't take the time to look. And this leaves us more empty, with bigger holes. This pushes our dreams away further. This opens the door for that world out there that doesn't give a fuck and is waiting to use us. Are you going to let it pull you out, or are you going to flip it off and slam the door in it's face?

Here's for the things that we don't to our graves, because we allow ourselves to think and act on them. The trips, the relationships, the honesty, the experiences, the memories, the happiness that we find because of it. Because we took that one extra step. We look in the mirror every morning to see what we look like as we are running out the door. When do you look in the mirror to see who you are, and take time to search for an answer?

Even if I don't know you, I can confidently say that I know this: A better life is waiting for you. Don't ask me how to get it. Look inside yourself.

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