WAKE UP!

 

 When you go through darkness, you have a choice at that exact moment of how you will decide to live the rest of your life. You can either keep letting yourself fall into the darkness or you can climb out and shine brighter than you ever have before. Life is beautiful but it also will never slow down for you no matter how hard you try to make it. The sun will rise and it will fall, and it is up to you to figure out how you will live each day. You can live in envy, always focusing on the negatives and hating life for what it hasn't given you, or you can live in hope and focus on the positives, and fight for what life is waiting to give you. Sometimes you will feel like you have to live in a way that doesn't describe you and it is at that exact moment where your real story can either begin, or never start. If you choose to stay the way the world wants you to, then your book will close and life will pass by, each day becoming less fulfilling than the next. If you choose to become the person that describes you then the pencil will start write and each day will become a page that will always be worth reading. No one story will ever be the same and that is the beauty of life. There is no name-brand on life, one set career, or one look that describes how life should ever be. There can only be one word that describes life and that is undefined. No person in this world has all of the answers or the correct way to live, just a belief of how it should be. When you see life drowning someone, will you put your hand in the water and pull them out, or will you sit in silence and watch them sink? If you give someone your hand, you are giving them hope that they are not in this life alone. Success is not the clothes you wear, the house you go home to, or the money you have. Success is helping others succeed, loving everyone you meet, and effecting lives in a way that will make life seem worth living. So when you wake up, life will be waiting , and it will be ready to take you wherever you want to go. 

 

-Austin