Settling

It's amazing what people settle for when they think there's nothing better. We're taught to settle. Don't be picky, don't be unappreciative; don't question, just take it. Aren't we put on this world with nothing but our bodies and minds? If that's all we are given, we are to make all we can of it. Any part of my life made for anyone else, altered or tailored for anyone else isn't worth it... it won't stick.

There are few good things out there. But there are enough for every one person to run into them several times during his or her lifetime. Whether we reach out and hold onto them is our own choice. We let these pass by and through us, whether it be out of fear or uncertainty, complacency or anxiety.

Cheap thrills are everything else. Bad TV, or a laugh over something unmemorable. Cheap thrills to get me by, tide me over, never truly satisfying. 10,000 of these fleeting, false emotions won't equal one good person, feeling, thing that could happen to me. One thing that I'll remember, that impacted me in any way. They may not know it and I may not realize it at first, but no matter how jaded, how deluded, no matter how full of shit I am, I should know for myself what I truly need and what I don't.