It has been drilled into me that life will never be easy. My parents made it a habit to use my brain as a stone slab using their voices as writing utensils.  I learned to mimic their way of thinking through my tongue. My words just an echo of someone else’s voice. Just like anything else, the more you repeat it the more you start to believe it. By doing this I had now written my name at the top left corner of the stone slab like if it were my own work. I now knew what it looked like to struggle I now knew what it was to survive. I now knew life wasn’t fair. I now knew you had to work hard. I finally knew what it looked like. After countless years of reading it I finally got to see the images of it in my head. I stood by those words and those images and swore by them. I knew that life would be difficult and at 17 I know I still have not felt it at its full force. I know a few things that we as humans on this earth need to do…..

We need to be kind to each other

We need to treat others with respect

Try to find your strengths in this life

Find something to anchor you

Not everything difficult will destroy you

It’s okay not to be okay

It’s okay to feel mad sometimes

It is always okay to ask for help

In the years to come I will have changed. I will be different than the person I am today, in two years, maybe even one. Things in life will have altered, they will have been adjusted to fit the needs of the majority. These things that we should live by aren’t lived by everyone, myself included. We need to learn and gain these things and strive to achieve them and if they aren’t already engraved on your own stone slab then start writing them down, before anyone else starts doing it for you. And remember to write your own name at the top.