Life is a funny thing when you take time to think of it. It's as if we're all robots, following the rituals society has set for us. You're born, pampered, taught by parents, teachers and society what you should do and what you shouldn't do,spend half your life in school, struggle to find yourself, go to college, work, accomplish the goals you set for yourself, get married, have kids, watch your kids do the same, grow old, and eventually die hoping your name will be remembered and carried on. But is that really all life is about? I don't think so.
Life appeared to be the easiest thing to us when we were children, little did we know, reality would soon set in and we would no longer see anything easy about it. One of the toughest battles anyone probably has to encounter, is the battle within themselves. Trying to find yourself, find purpose in your life, give your life meaning, whether keeping yourself busy with education, or trying to find a spouse to make your life complete. Achieving your goals is anything but easy, but it is worth it in the long run. Seeing a degree being handed to you the day of your graduation after spending practically most of your life in school, that is an accomplishment. Settling down, making a family, building a home, raising well-mannered children, that is also an accomplishment, and anything but easy. Forcing yourself out of bed everyday to build yourself, even working at a minimum wage job, trying to keep yourself away from the troubles of life, that is an accomplishment. Society shouldn't have to set for us standards some of us are just unable to meet. Not just unable, some just don't want to. School isn't for everyone, marriage isn't for everyone, 'to each his own.'
Basicially, everyone shouldn't take life so seriously, no one gets out alive anyway.
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