"Spare me your money, I want some change baby."

I like to think of my brain was a sifter and all my thoughts are tiny pieces of sand, most of my thoughts just slip right through but every once in a while I'm left with a shell or coin and sometimes even a pearl. Sadly, though, I sometimes mistake pearls for big shiny pieces of sand--this is probably a big piece of sand. There are different kinds of factors that effect us as people internally, which then push us to adjust ourselves mentally and behaviorally. Most of the time, at least for me anyway, they change you for the better almost dynamically usually brought on after an epiphany of some kind. These effects can be dramatic or subtle, either way we're usually quite different from the way we were before it. Of course we all experience this different and at different times and some people just don't learn at all, but I call these moments "growing moments" (I just made that up) because really your just growing up a little, advancing to the next level. With that logic, though, wouldn't that make those moments quintessential parts of life, learning experiences that are necessary to become the best "you" you can be? And if that's true then wouldn't you WANT those moments and EMBRACE those moments? After all the most grippingly personal moments that no one else shares; sure you may have had a similar moment or even shared a moment with someone else but that's not the meat of the lesson--it's what you take away from it and how you allow that to effect you positively. Knowing that I can totally understand why old people hate young people...we're fucking pricks. Think about it, you live for like roughly 80 or 90 years and I know me at 18 is completely different from me at 20 so I can only imagine what shit I'll go though from now till then and all the crap I learn from it. So after I work my ass off in college and struggle paying back loans and finding a career then working my ass off in that career and get married, have kid,s start a family, buy a mini van, do soccer practice, karate, make sandwiches, put my kids though college, get stabbed for my velcro wallet, get divorced, spend most of the week with my kids then try and meet people on weekends even though I'm way too old to start dating again, retire, use my retirement money to but a sweet place, loose it cause I have no money for medicare, and then move into a small town home of course I'm gonna hate young people. Boo hoo grandpa I didn't make the cheerleading squad--Fuck your cheerleading squad I need an extra person in the bathroom to help me shit out the nasty mushed up crap I ate 30 minutes ago...cheerleading squad. I can't wait to yell at people who are on my lawn cause my lawns the only thing I got--that a reruns of some sitcom for old people in the future.

Life sucks, everyone knows that, the sooner you come to terms with that the sooner you can start enjoying yourself
Your alive, smile.
It's all about your perception, how you perceive things. If you look at the tower of Pisa, what's wrong with it? NOTHING! it's all how you look at it, tilt your head a little and looks fine--now apply that to your life.

-Toph