Choose to Live!

Life isn’t perfect. Life has never been flawless. You might think life specializes on making things difficult for you. You might think you’ve been a slave for those countless ordeals you have dealt. You have construed the abundance of trials as forces entwined in a conspiracy to bring you down.

There might have been occasional attempts you’ve made to blight your young life. To ponder on a possibility that ends pain with pain. To instigate an act of insurgence against life’s cruelty. To express the boldest form of dissent from difficulty.

Yes you can do that. And you think you have all the right to decide on favoring what you think is rational. You can always count on myriad ways to die. You can take a bullet straight to your head. You can swallow those sleeping pills to induce you in eternal slumber. You can slice through that lifeline on your wrist and see how the river of life slowly drains out of your limp body.

Body. Body that have been struggling for years. Body that have testified how wicked time and circumstances are. Body that have grown numb finding a small satisfaction in the art of getting by for survival. Body that has been wrongfully abused by the relentless feat of trying. Body that has deteriorated. Body that will soon rot leaving no traces of beauty, of strength, of warmth.

BUT NO!

You can still choose the other way around. I know it ain’t easy keeping your head held high when you feel like breaking down. It ain’t easy sustaining the life you’ve branded “worthless”. And I know you’ve been into lethargic moments where life becomes blunt and existence is merely pointless.

Many times you feel so small. Just one match in the blinding lights of the city. A tiny dot in a pointillism painting. A grain of sand in the vast expanse of the beach. Just another wave that crashes to the shore.

BUT NO!

You are something. Someone valuable. Remember: those bright lights is one match brighter with you in it. There’ll be a noticeable empty space when one dot is diminished in a dazzling figure. The natural pattern will go sporadic with one wave missing. And most of all, without you there’s a considerable amount of elements that'll go missing. And believe me, such percentage is not negligible. It is powerful enough that all the life-sustaining cycles on earth is affected.

Yes, you’re not someone the world knows. You’re someone they don’t know existing. Someone who is among the population of “anonymous”. But hey! You have all the right and privilege to continue living. Embrace the surprises life may bring. Unravel the tangled thoughts and recover a durable rope that you can hold on to for as long as you live.

Yes. Life isn’t perfect, but you can laugh and learn from your flaws. And let’s face it. Life is a series of tribulations but you can always choose to dance in the rain.

Appreciate the peculiar rhythm of life. Choose to LIVE. Choose to LOVE LIFE!

 Anajean J.