Try the Walk on Broken Glass

The vulnerability and risk in living a free life on a daily basis forces you to take the bad with the good.  Through the many days that you wake up happier than ever, there are always some mornings where you wish you could squeeze your eyelids shut so tight and disappear to a different world leaving every problem, headache, regret and worry behind you.  The restrictions and boundaries of life force us to live as every other person in our surrounding world, which is why I always choose to take the road less traveled.     

What are you going to do when you graduate high school?  Give away the next four years of your life to college because that's what you're supposed to do.  What are you going to need by the age of thirty-five?  A marriage, children and house with blue shutters.  Why?  Because that's what everyone is supposed to do.  Make sure your bills are paid on time, work toward good credit, and never spend money on senseless items you "want" instead of need.  I feel sorry for you people because you are out of your minds....actually you aren't, but you need to be.  For living in such a "free" world we are constantly pressured or subconciously restricted to our ways of living, and those who dare to be different are either irresponsible or simply nuts.

Life is supposed to be something exciting; everyday is a new day.  Take some risks, surprise people by your actions and never live two days the same.  You're wasting the oxygen in my world by working the 9-5 Monday through Friday, never eating out, and doing housework every Sunday.  Those people, my friends, are nuts. 

I have found that taking the less traveled path is usually done barefoot on gravel and broken glass instead of walking on a plush carpet, but I still don't wish to choose the comfortable way.  Give me a box of bandaids for all of the cuts because even though I will have the scars years down the road, the bandaid makes it feel better right now.  Some say I am too young to understand the real world, but I think I'm the only one who see's it for what it really is.  When the time comes that I my life is two days identical, that will be my cue to squeeze my eyes shut- as tightly as possible and hope that when they open I am in a different life.   

Live it and love it.